What does yester-minute mean?
Yester-minute means The very recent past; minutes ago..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
The very recent past; minutes ago..
thus it includes not only yesterday but yester-hour and yester-minute; this morning’s breakfast is already history
To some, nothing is older than a minutes-old Web page (to update the old saw about a day-old newspaper), but for others there is value in the Web sites of yester-minute and archivists have been wrestling with means of preserving today's Internet for tomorrow's scholars and researchers.
Use yester-minute when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Yester-minute means The very recent past; minutes ago..
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thus it includes not only yesterday but yester-hour and yester-minute; this morning’s breakfast is already history
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