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minor

[mahy-ner] / ˈmaɪ nər /




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But EU integration occupies a strikingly minor place in the students' election manifesto, which describes the bloc merely as Serbia's "most important economic partner".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Despite some minor model disagreement, temperature forecasts continue to favor warmer-than-normal weather across key population centers well into the first half of November,” Andy Huenefeld of Pinebrook Energy Advisors says in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

And he co-sponsored a law that voided the Memphis City Council’s ban on police stops for minor traffic infractions, which had been passed after the 2023 beating death of Black motorist Tyré Nichols.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Hassan Zahid, who runs American-Mexican fusion street food business Fuego 1987 in Manchester, said the tariff changes would only have a "really minor" impact.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Chase hoped his father was right about the repairs being minor.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Usually, those devices were saved for heads of households, and not appended to youths and minors.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

Though he’d carried high workloads in the minors before, being a major-league starting catcher comes with added responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Nonetheless, an overnight curfew for minors is expected to be announced for some parts of the city from Tuesday.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Because minors didn’t have to pay, he announced that he would take me with him.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

“I’m a rule-follower,” said Fudge, who majored in mechanical engineering and minored in math.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Annika Duneja is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in journalism and business and minored in French.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

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

There, I was a drama major, minoring in a little bit of everything.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025

She is majoring in TV and film and minoring in political science, and she recently spent two weeks focused on final exams.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023

After majoring in philosophy and minoring in religion, he graduated in 1972.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

A communications major minoring in queer studies, Hartmann, who uses they/them pronouns, has joined protests in support of abortion access because they feel the fight centers on having autonomy over their own body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

So Bushma — majoring in computing and security technology and minoring in psychology — keeps doing what she does best and wins at squash.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2022


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