MINUTES Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

minutes 1 of 2

noun

plural of minute

as in seconds

a very small space of time I'll be with you in just a minute

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minutes

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of minute

as in transcribes

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Noun

For a relatively small fee, someone meets you at the aircraft, carries your bags, escorts you through customs in just a few minutes, helps collect your luggage, and takes you directly to your transportation. — Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026 Mora erased a 1-0 deficit with goals in the 56th and 67th minutes, giving him 48 in 145 regular-season appearances — third most in club history. — ABC News, 26 July 2026 Battle of Island Mound State Historic Site Battle of Island Mound State Historic Site is another historical landmark in the state located in Butler, an hour and 10 minutes south of Kansas City. — Zuri Primos july 26, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026 Once filtered, add the coriander; just add 1 tsp cracked coriander seeds to the finished cocktail, and let infuse for about 15 ti 30 minutes before straining out. — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 July 2026 At about 45 minutes in, guests were looking at their phones and fidgeting in their seats. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 July 2026 About ten minutes later, Morales Moshe stabbed Yezhak Grunhaus in the chest with a screwdriver outside The Jewish Center, a prominent Upper West Side synagogue, on Amsterdam Ave. — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026 Several of the robberies occurred on the same day, only minutes apart from one another. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2026 Shakira, Madonna, BTS and Justin Bieber are all expected to perform in a show that is expected to last 11 minutes. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 19 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for minutes

Noun

Place the pita directly on the oven rack and broil until toasted, 30 seconds to 1 minute.

— Kate Williams, AJC.com, 27 July 2026
The path of totality — the moon’s dark shadow — will cross eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain, from where the sun’s corona will become visible, if skies are clear, for up to 2 minutes 18 seconds.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of seconds

Verb

When a customer calls, the system transcribes the conversation and redacts personal information before the information is shared with the AI assistant, Dunn said.

— William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2025
As more 911 calls come in, AI transcribes them on another screen.

— Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

Definition of transcribes

Noun

After forming an alliance with Pogačar — who put on a show even through the typically ceremonial last stage — an exhausted van der Poel faced an onslaught in the final moments but hung on by a thread.

— Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Attitude Control Motors provide precise steering during the final moments before impact.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026

Definition of moments

Verb

The narrative chronicles the desperate struggle for survival in a secluded harbor town after residents discover a mysterious alien entity on their outskirts.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 July 2026
My Big Italian Adventure, which aired on HGTV, chronicles the one-euro house Lorraine Bracco renovated in Sambuca di Sicilia.

— Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of chronicles

Noun

People who develop racing heartbeats, tremors, anxiety, insomnia, reflux, headaches or reproducible palpitations after drinking coffee should not ignore those symptoms simply because population studies are reassuring.

— Robert Glatter, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
But the most striking of the new songs is the opener, a slow-motion unfurling against a backdrop of heartbeats and zithers.

— Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 July 2026

Definition of heartbeats

Verb

Bringing the seeds to space and finding places to plant them wasn’t an official part of the Apollo 14 mission, Fletcher Page reports.

— Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 23 July 2026
Magyar was himself once part of Orban’s political circle for over two decades and was previously married to Orban’s Justice Minister Judit Varga, reports Reuters.

— Sophia Mandt, The Washington Examiner, 22 July 2026

Definition of reports

Verb

The wallet itself runs checks against counterparties, enforces spending rules, and logs every interaction, effectively preventing the agent from acting outside approved parameters.

— Aaron Stanley, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
In a typical year, Michigan logs around fifty cyclospora infections; in the past month, the state has recorded more than three thousand.

— Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 14 July 2026

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