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minority

noun as in a group differing from the majority

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While it remains a popular policy with a large minority of voters it is not necessarily a priority for all those who support it.

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Bristol City councillor Fabian Breckels made the comment under a post of a photograph of an individual from an ethnic minority who was being accused of stealing copper gas canisters.

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A moderately liberal Democrat, Updike was in the smallest of literary minorities in not being fervently against the Vietnam War.

While research is limited, studies have shown women from ethnic minority backgrounds experience menopause differently to white women - and this will be explored at a "marginalised and menopausal" event in Cardiff later this month.

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Senate Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer said "this is what tyranny looks like."

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