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She is a journalism and mass-communication student with a minor in photography at the George Washington University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Two years later, he graduated debt-free with a bachelor’s in political science and a minor in philosophy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
The Toronto Blue Jays swapped him and two other minor leaguers for pitcher José Soriano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
There are two major shortcomings that keep it from carrying much more weight than a flawed first draft by a junior fellow at a minor think tank would.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
Thank lasagna I wasn’t the only one nervous/embarrassed/having a minor freak-out.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Plus, dozens of universities now offer real-estate degrees, minors or concentrations for undergraduates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
AFP on Saturday saw migrant minors milling around in a disused industrial park in Ceuta, while others dozed on the pavements outside.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
I felt bad for the young man, felt he should get to fix his issues in the minors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
This time around, Hernández told the Times that he’s not going so he can focus on a rehabilitation stint in the minors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Bella told me he’d had problems at a New Jersey detention facility for minors, where he’d been a counselor/guard—some of the kids had escaped during his watch.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Annika Duneja is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in journalism and business and minored in French.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
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
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
There, I was a drama major, minoring in a little bit of everything.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
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
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
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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