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Example Sentences
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Liana Handler is a recent graduate of the University of Florida, where she studied journalism with a minor in Spanish.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
Police detained a first suspect, possibly a minor, in the early hours of Saturday just after he placed a device outside the bank building, near the Champs-Elysees.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
It was not an overnight fix, and was relatively minor in nature, but undoubtedly after that the trend line of Norris' trajectory was a positive one.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025
Great artists major in defiance and minor in delusion: You will want to see what I have to offer, and love it, even if it is unfamiliar, disquieting and as ravishingly uncommercial as “Architecton.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
I moved a finger and the chord went minor in a way that always sounded to me as if the lute were saying sad.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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