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minority

noun as in a group differing from the majority

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Observers say this is a minority view, represented by a small part of the Korean electorate.

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Spain's minority government on Tuesday downplayed the loss of support of a Catalan separatist party which heightened doubt about the fragile leftist coalition's survival.

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There’s an angry but marginal anti-immigrant minority, and while overt racism and bigotry certainly exist, they face widespread mainstream disapproval.

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"They don't really know what will happen in the minority of cases where tenancies go wrong," he added.

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Still, it is a kind of compressed collection of key Democratic Party constituencies—the college-educated, recent immigrants, minorities and working-class Black voters.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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