Minuit
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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And 57,000 people who just wanted to fish and mind their own business are waking up to discover they’re sitting on the most valuable real estate since Peter Minuit came upon Manhattan.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
I spot a shelf full of what look like freshly printed copies of Beckett plays and novels from his longtime French publisher, Les Éditions de Minuit.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022
One version of this legend maintains Minuit made the purchase from the Canarsie, but they resided in Queens, the western-most end of Long Island.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 14, 2018
Directional signs installed around Peter Minuit Plaza, which abuts the south end of the park, already bear the shortened name.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2015
New Netherland had not yet seen the last of Peter Minuit, however.
From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
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