- plural of minority.
minorities
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“Speaker Pelosi had set a goal of elevating minorities and women who had historically been excluded from leadership,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
"Women, minorities, people living at the margins and the poorest were the worst hit by this exercise because they're the ones who find it very difficult to produce documents which can prove their citizenship."
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
He has positioned himself as a champion of the banlieues, France’s working-class suburbs, by focusing on issues such as discrimination against minorities and police violence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
At first glance, it seems as if the same groups that powered Mr. Obama’s rise—young people, minorities and white voters with college degrees—are behind Mr. El-Sayed’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
In eight years Permian had gone from being a virtually all-white school to one where the proportion of minorities in the student body was about 30 percent.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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