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minor

[mahy-ner] / ˈmaɪ nər /




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The minor fell from a balcony at Benjamin Franklin High School, police said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Many of the current disputes between Europe and the U.S. are minor compared with this agreement’s size and benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

There’s a term for this: the pratfall effect, named for a 1966 psychological experiment which found that highly accomplished people become more appealing to others when they make minor screwups.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

It said the "vast majority of snagging issues are minor" and there was no evidence that quality standards were not keeping pace with the rate of housebuilding.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

He had started getting headaches, though they were minor at the time.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Schools are coming up with a flurry of AI majors, minors, concentrations and certifications, which raises questions about what even counts as a strong AI program these days, Simpson noted.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Aylo said that updates to the Act requiring age verification had "not achieved its goal of protecting minors" and had "diverted traffic to darker, unregulated corners of the internet".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Following the shooting on Friday, Reynaldo Tamayo, the South Cotabato governor, urged adult gun owners to "be responsible in storing firearms" and ensuring that minors do not get access to them.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The EU’s so-called Kids Act, formally presented on Thursday, would ban children under 13 from accessing social media, and set a minimum EU-wide age of 15 for minors to open their own accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

He is a St. Louis native and graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he majored in journalism and minored in art history and archeology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Tabussam, who minored in “resistance to genocide,” suggested her opponents were mistaken about her views and her studies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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

In 1992, I started at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in communications and minoring in theater.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

The “Euphoria” actor has been enrolled as a student at the University of Southern California where she is majoring in dramatic arts and minoring in African American studies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024

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

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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