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There were later some minor disturbances which police suggested may be linked in part to the removal of the pallets.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Two police officers suffered minor injuries during the incident on Saturday.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The latter company would also include the Hartford Wolf Pack, a minor league ice hockey team, and MSG Training Center in Westchester County.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
One firefighter was hospitalised and five others suffered minor injuries, the fire service confirmed, with crews continuing to extinguish "hotspots" in open grassland, along a railway and in gardens.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Figure 4.44: The major key for each key signature is shown as a capital letter; the minor key as a small letter.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Some states in recent years have passed laws seeking to address problematic youth use of social media, including banning smartphone in schools and requiring parental consent for minors to create accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The matriarch shares a sweltering tent with 18 others, mostly relatives, with eight minors among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Some of the advertisements may have targeted minors, Menin wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Nearly 1,400 minors, some of them "very young boys and girls", still remain in Ceuta following last week's crossings, Spanish Youth Minister Sira Rego said on Friday.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Geez. Look at it this way. If you add our ages together, we're not minors; we're one adult. Freebie isn't a pet. He’s a hotel guest and family member. And I showered after basketball.”
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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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
“Right now, I’m a full-time student. I’m majoring in biology, minoring in computer science. My big goal is to become an astro microbiologist for NASA, so essentially looking for aliens.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
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
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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