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But the look and tone of “60 Minutes” remained intact, with only a few minor tweaks to the graphics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The sound design of “Voices” is raw and the rumored $50,000 budget so strapped that minor period piece inconsistencies like cheap plastic trash cans sneak into the frame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Tiffany and the pilot were treated for minor injuries and released from the hospital, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
This review does not reveal the game's biggest moments, but beware minor spoilers for some of the characters that appear and a few early sequences.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The scale that is created by playing all the notes in a minor key signature is a natural minor scale.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Last month, Meta agreed to an $18 billion settlement that ended a trial over social media’s impact on teenagers and required the company to make several changes to how minors interact with its platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
A Colombian judge on Thursday ordered President Abelardo de la Espriella's right-wing government to suspend bombings of guerrillas if information suggests the presence of recruited minors.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The shift comes amid a broader backlash over social media’s influence on minors and the building of data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Will the protection of minors online still be among your priorities?" they wrote.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
I wondered if he saw that a major leaguer was here to play a season or two in the minors.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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As someone who minored in journalism, he’d always loved writing, but ChatGPT’s efficiency gains were hard to turn down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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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In 1992, I started at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in communications and minoring in theater.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Alia Yee Noll is a junior at USC majoring in journalism and minoring in documentary and gender & sexuality studies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 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
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