as in lowest
being the least in amount, number, or size possible
spent the minimum amount necessary to acquire the property
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Recent Examples of minimum
Katie Campione, Deadline, 7 May 2025
The family is asking for a trial by jury and a minimum of $50,000.
—Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2025
This approach ensures that both casualty statistics and compensation payouts are kept to a minimum.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
While Burks will be a free agent this offseason, a Heat return at the minimum shouldn’t be ruled out.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 5 May 2025
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Noun
The overall contract minimum has been bumped to $65,000 with an additional $1,000 increase to all minimums in Year 2 and Year 3.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 7 May 2025
The family is asking for a trial by jury and a minimum of $50,000.
—Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2025
This approach ensures that both casualty statistics and compensation payouts are kept to a minimum.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
While Burks will be a free agent this offseason, a Heat return at the minimum shouldn’t be ruled out.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for minimum
Noun
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Lyonne and Johnson seek to give the lone wolf Charlie a modicum of stability this go around.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
8 May 2025
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His shows — Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place — have always received a modicum of Emmy attention.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.—
Hartford Courant,
courant.com,
30 Sep. 2017
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Related: Here are some tricks from the CDC for de-ticking yourself: • Put your clothes in the dryer on high heat for a minim of six minutes.—
Valerie Lego,
Detroit Free Press,
20 June 2017
Noun
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What isn’t: His ballclub could benefit from any semblance of offensive invigoration.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
7 May 2025
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In Peter Ames Carlin’s biography of Wilson, Catch a Wave, Love recalled sweeping Wilson’s house for drugs and trying to imbue his chaotic life with some semblance of order.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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These new vehicles operate in sectors with minimal regulation, enabling flows of money that are faster and harder to trace than traditional real estate deals.—
Zach Everson,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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If a kid is a violent kid, and the kid is being let off with multiple warnings and minimal disciplinary consequences after giving every indication of being violent and dangerous, that violence and that danger may not stay inside of the building.—
Holly Yan,
CNN Money,
10 May 2025
Noun
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Because the stress is always on a word’s first syllable, the language also has a cozy regularity, like a horse clopping down a road.—
Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Jeremy McLennan,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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The poem’s individual words and syllables bob like a string of harbor buoys.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Additionally, the milliner works to use every ounce of fabric sourced for her designs, which are reworn and passed down through generations.—
Morgan Evans,
Vogue,
3 May 2025
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And the lessons to be taken away are that an ounce of prevention goes a long way.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 May 2025
Noun
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That sale was the spark of speculation among more than a handful of VIP day attendees, though few were willing to speculate or give Frieze’s new owners advice.—
Karen K. Ho for ARTnews,
Robb Report,
8 May 2025
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Leaders looking to create real change should not settle for temporary sparks.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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The Stirling family expects that all video and audio footage along with every report and shred of evidence related to this deeply disturbing shooting be preserved for presentation in due course as part of the lawsuit the family will be pursuing.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
8 May 2025
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The upshot: Not a shred of pink was seen at the Peter Rabbit themed affair.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Minimum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minimum. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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