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He went on to play in the minor leagues, including two seasons with the IHL’s San Diego Gulls, and spent 12 years calling Rangers games as an MSG Network analyst.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Her campaign said she received a minor in American Indian studies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
He calls that minor compared with his gains, but I don’t.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
This wasn’t necessarily by choice, but rather that I wanted to do something important and no one else I knew wanted to do it, and I wasn’t going to let that minor detail stop me.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
In Western culture, we predominantly use the major and minor scales.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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As Jane Leavy explains in her outstanding biography, Sandy Koufax was then still an erratic pitcher, but the Dodgers were prohibited by league rules from sending him down to the minors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Since protests began, high school students have also attended protests alongside their university counterparts, with police and authorities regularly condemning the involvement of minors in violence.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
More than 200 people were detained, 80% of whom were minors, Ansa reported.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Webby said they have a no-contact order with their children and are not allowed to supervise any minors “in any capacity, paid or unpaid.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Notice in particular the relationship of the altered notes in the harmonic, melodic, and dorian minors.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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“I’m a rule-follower,” said Fudge, who majored in mechanical engineering and minored in math.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Tabassum, a biomedical engineering major with a passion for social justice who minored in “resistance to genocide,” drew undisclosed threats to the university.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
I minored in women’s and gender studies as an undergraduate at New York University; as a law student at the same institution, I took courses in feminist jurisprudence and women’s rights in Islamic law.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
He majored in communications and minored in English, with a goal of anchoring “SportsCenter” someday.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023
“I minored in Spanish in college, sweetheart. I did a semester here. It’s where I met your dad...You know this!”
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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It’s a core offering taken by students minoring in comedy performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
After majoring in philosophy and minoring in religion, he graduated in 1972.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
This summer, she will attend the pre-college music summer program at Carnegie Mellon University, a college that would allow her to major in music while minoring in computer science.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2022
Hensien is majoring in marketing and minoring in entrepreneurship and expects to get her degree this summer.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
Mr. Puckett is a freshman majoring in English and minoring in history at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he has a four-year scholarship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2016
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