as in pristine
being in an original and unused or unspoiled state
a mint baseball card that should be worth a lot to a collector
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as in fortune
a very large amount of money
she made a mint when the real estate market was hot
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Recent Examples of mint
Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2025
Hanson makes a vinaigrette from the cooking liquid, adding fresh lemon juice, olive oil, mint, shallots, herbs—a complicated preparation.
—Tamar Adler, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025
But the enforcement against such practices is vastly disproportionate to the volume of meme coins minted every day, especially when the creators are based in a different country than the investors.
—Chris Groshong, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The landscape is a gardeners’ dream with apple, plum, pear, cherry and nectarine trees, a goji berry patch, blueberry plants, an herb garden, fresh mint, specimens of viburnum, various holly shrubs, arborvitae, Alberta spruces and andromeda plants.
—Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2025
Hanson makes a vinaigrette from the cooking liquid, adding fresh lemon juice, olive oil, mint, shallots, herbs—a complicated preparation.
—Tamar Adler, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025
Verb
Make sure your penny was minted pre-1982, when pennies in the US were made with primarily copper.
—Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025
But the enforcement against such practices is vastly disproportionate to the volume of meme coins minted every day, especially when the creators are based in a different country than the investors.
—Chris Groshong, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mint
Adjective
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Several agents observed that the new money in Palm Beach County is notably younger: couples with small children who have fled larger cities to congregate with the like-minded in a pristine place without the irritation of homelessness or, for that matter, encounters with the middle class.—
Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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With all the uncertainty surrounding the sale of the team and many fans wanting new ownership, and both the club and its fan base looking to shed the bad taste of last year’s collapse, the Twins are hoping for a pristine start to 2025.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Much of the commentary around this stunning reversal of economic fortune focuses on Trump’s tariff proposals.—
Josh Bivens,
TIME,
20 Mar. 2025
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Bridgeman made his fortune without ever making more than $350,000 in one NBA season.—
Michael Hutton,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Greenwashing Greenwashing—the practice of misleading consumers about environmental efforts—was coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld nearly 40 years ago, when hotels promoted towel reuse as an environmental initiative while primarily aiming to cut costs.—
Anjali Chaudhry,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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On March 22, the Venus Star Point (a term coined by the astrologer Arielle Guttman) occurs in the sky when the Sun and Venus link up.—
Lisa Stardust,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The first film was good, better than its 43% critic score indicated back in 2018, but now both its critic and audience score have improved since the original, a fresh 63% and a 79% respectively.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Six months on, those words are yet to yield anything tangible, but the project has been given fresh impetus by the club’s new American owners, The Friedkin Group (TFG).—
Patrick Boyland,
The Athletic,
21 Mar. 2025
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Snaking through the salons of an old Paris mansion, the circuitous catwalk is marked with bundles of spindly wood branches and vibrant floral blooms, adornments that add an ethereal air to the silk-stocking grandeur.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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The group sought a waiver of a requirement that replacement voice services be offered on a stand-alone basis instead of only in a bundle with broadband.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Ukraine’s notorious bureaucracy, while modernizing, could still hamper foreign investments, as could a system of corruption that some experts caution has defied efforts to stamp it out.—
Howard LaFranchi,
The Christian Science Monitor,
20 Mar. 2025
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Certain four-digit combinations that make up a year seem to stamp themselves on my mind.—
Michael Brendan Dougherty,
National Review,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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To prevent roadside bomb ambushes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Americans learned to get ahead of the problem and hunt down the men who built and distributed the bombs.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Authorities said at least one person threw Molotov cocktails—crude bombs filled with gasoline or another flammable liquid—and fired several rounds from a weapon into the vehicles.—
TIME,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
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In fact, could also very well be the difference between a pilot being greenlit or remaining lost in a pile of pitches, never to see the light of day.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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This requires us to go through the forest every year after harvest and create burn piles with all the fallen wood that is too small for firewood.—
Gary Stoller,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Mint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mint. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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