Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for minima
Noun
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While the lunar far side will be only partially lit during the flyby, the lighting is set to cast long shadows that highlight craters, ridges, and slopes in greater detail.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Apr. 2026 -
But in the shadows, amid growing unease at the bloodthirsty actions of the realm’s merciless Mad King, dissenters from his inner circle anxiously advance a treasonous plot.—
Ryan Brennan
April 3,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Take a room full of particles, for instance, where half of the particles are cold (low in kinetic energy, moving slowly, with a long timescale in between collisions) and half of the particles are hot (high in kinetic energy, moving rapidly, with short timescales separating successive collisions).—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Apr. 2026
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As free quarks cannot exist in isolation, quarks produced from the vacuum immediately combine into composite particles called hyperons.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Kansas City has been perched atop the ECHL standings nearly the entire season, a campaign in which the Mavericks have rattled off not one but two winning streaks of double-digit duration (12 and 14 games).—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2026
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Get a beautiful sunless tan without streaks, smell or orange color.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Shards of glass cut into my palms and shins, while the wind hurled sharp granules of ice into my face, harbingers of a storm that was already approaching from the west.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Granular Pre-Emergent Herbicide Application Fill a lawn spreader with the pre-emergent granules and set the spreader to the product label instructions per square footage.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Choose from bucket, visor, wide-brim and cap styles, all with advanced sun protection with a UPF 50 rating, blocking 98% of harmful UV rays.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The charter boat made a point of not interfere with the rays, Davisson said.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The notation was curiously quaint, dots and curly tails swimming along like so many tadpoles.—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
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For over a decade now, voters have connected the dots between rising costs and what is happening in Annapolis.—
Randy Altschuler,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Many of its songs crystallize around samples of choirs singing, their soft syllables dissolving beneath heavy shrouds of reverb.—
Sasha Geffen,
Pitchfork,
10 Mar. 2026
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With her original, breathy way of speaking, stressing odd syllables and stretching random vowels to the breaking point, her mad fashions and family of wigs, Moira is a sketch character with depth.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Through a specialized molten salt treatment, the long polymer chains in polyethylene are broken down into fuel-grade molecules.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Apr. 2026
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Much like having a cold, the subsequent congestion can then block odor molecules from reaching olfactory receptors.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Minima.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minima. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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