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
The company hired Peter Minuit to find land in North America that had not yet been claimed.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The Dutch protested and threatened, but Minuit built a fort on the site of Wilmington, and called it Fort Christina, in honor of the young queen of Sweden, daughter of Gustavus Adolphus.
From The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann
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