minimum
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You have many sources of income during those pre-Social Security years, prior to when your required minimum distributions kick in when you hit your 70s.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
LeBron James signed a two-year, $8 million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, taking the league minimum salary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Foreign farmworkers, he said, routinely worked seven days a week, skipped lunch breaks to maximise piece-rate earnings and were often paid below the national minimum wage.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
However, they added that "regulations set out minimum criteria for tourist accommodation", but that "disability access is not specifically covered by these regulations, as it falls under other regulations".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
“What’s left is the bare minimum for the curriculum.”
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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In momentum space, free electrons are found in the local minima and maxima of the energy landscape, namely at points where the conduction and valence bands meet.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
"We found that even when bulk pyrite sulfur isotopes changed a lot between glacials and interglacials, the minima of our single grain pyrite distributions remained broadly constant," Bryant said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 24, 2023
Our home star goes through periods called grand minima when there are few to no sunspots.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023
She was able to get photos of the Perdita minima but not the hard-to-spot burrows she hoped to also find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
Any one can calculate future minima for himself by adding the periodic time above given to the time of any observed minimum.
From Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments by Serviss, Garrett Putman
However, loans from credit unions can be harder to qualify for as they might require higher credit-score minimums, bigger cash reserves or stricter debt-to-income limits.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
But they are based on 2025 stress capital buffers, or SCBs, which refer to the capital lenders must hold above required regulatory minimums.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
The organisation said their documented figures should be seen as "absolute minimums", as getting information on deaths was severely limited by difficulty accessing sites, government-imposed internet blackouts and political repression.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
The court then issued a related ruling in Rutherford that prisoners could not receive a reduction in sentence based on mandatory minimums that Congress had reduced after their conviction.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
The weather report was routine—even boring—with details about air pressure, wind speeds, and temperature maximums and minimums.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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