minima

variants or minimums
plural of minimum

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for minima
Noun
  • Recreational facilities like Parque Río Cristal, Coney Island in Miramar and Lenin Park, which once offered leisure opportunities for ordinary Cubans, have become shadows of their former selves.
    Sarah Moreno June 5, Miami Herald, 6 June 2026
  • The show had shadows everywhere.
    Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • Seasonal allergies are primarily caused by trees and grasses, whose tiny pollen particles travel on the wind.
    Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 10 June 2026
  • The experiment produced nanophase iron, tiny metallic particles that are widely observed in lunar soil and are considered a key signature of space weathering.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • About losing streaks that ran longer than a decade.
    Leander Schaerlaeckens June 8, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
  • The Cubs are now 0-8-1 in their last nine series, a downward spiral that has turned their two 10-game winning streaks earlier this season into distant memories.
    Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • Prime lips for a perfectly smooth, even application using the 3-in-1 Lip Scrub pen, which gently scrubs away dead skin with super-fine sugar granules and keeps lips hydrated with nourishing shea butter and algae.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • Fall rains can dissolve the granules and deliver nutrients to the root zones, says Mary Godinez, the owner of Cross Keys Farm.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Ultraviolet radiation falls on the electromagnetic spectrum between X-rays and visible light.
    Kff Health News, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
  • If little red dots are rapidly accreting supermassive black holes shrouded by dense gas envelopes, this would explain why these mystery objects are so faint in X-rays, as these cocoons should absorb this high-energy radiation.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Her oval nails are painted in a khaki base coat with big, blue, swirly dots.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 25 May 2026
  • The Golden Knights are great between the dots and, clearly, in between the Avs’ ears.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
Noun
  • Popularized by a beer commercial during the 1986 World Cup, it’s used to rally on teams with its repetitive (albeit nonsensical) syllables as well as its upbeat ending.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
  • The final syllables accelerate into a blur, whereupon a ritual of wailing erupts.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • Living systems invest energy into making molecules that serve specific functions, even when those molecules are complex and harder to form.
    Gideon Yoffe, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
  • Sodium bicarbonate neutralizes odor molecules.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
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“Minima.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minima. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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