How to Use in the minority in a Sentence

in the minority

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  • Life in the minority would be a stark change after four years in power.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Leopold’s bullish stance puts him in the minority on Wall Street.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 13 May 2025
  • Her opinion — believe it or not — put her in the minority then.
    Marc Tracy, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2025
  • But Niccol isn’t alone or even in the minority.
    The Hill, 26 Sep. 2025
  • But the conservatives are in the minority, at least among those who will cast their ballots for a pope.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 7 May 2025
  • The board didn’t specify how many members were in the minority.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Heimerl relishes working in the field again, where women still are in the minority.
    Carol Deptolla, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2022
  • Still, Republicans have worked to hold up and drag out the process, with just weeks to go in the minority.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Garcetti said that any cautionary voices were in the minority in his office.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • At the time, the court's liberal justices were in the minority; the three who were on the court at the time opposed the move.
    Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • Yang is in the minority of workers who’ve managed to make a transition.
    ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The truth is, Black adults who visit Disney are in the minority.
    Ayana Lage, Allure, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The people who were non-disabled were in the minority as opposed to the people who were disabled.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2025
  • This was the race that did the trick for the GOP to end its four-year hiatus in the minority.
    Ian Swanson, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Despite being in the minority, however, the deep water wells are where the costs pile up.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
  • Each time, Democrats serving in the minority also supplied their votes in a bid to avert a crisis.
    Tony Romm, Tyler Pager, Liz Goodwin, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2023
  • One advantage of being in the minority is the ability to avoid hard votes.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 7 May 2025
  • Though the dissenters were in the minority, as this was the direction the movement was headed.
    Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Democrats have been in the minority in Texas for two decades; their tools of resistance are limited.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
  • But more so, Democrats see this as rare leverage in the minority to extract policy changes.
    Sam Gringlas, NPR, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The worst thing about the last election is realizing how many decent people are in the minority.
    Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2024
  • And yet the latter seems to be in the minority as loud murmurs of discontent can be hard as Chelsea end up in their own half once more.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Swenson joined in the minority vote as an advocate for the tougher line Reinert had proposed to draw.
    Peter Passi, Twin Cities, 30 July 2024
  • Conservatives would remain in the minority even if Bradley runs and wins.
    Daniel Bice, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • America decided to put us in the minority in terms of leadership right now.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The bill may face a difficult path in Congress, where Democrats are in the minority in both chambers.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Buchalter’s bullish call is in the minority on Wall Street, however.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 11 July 2025
  • The fact that Kennedy had a bunker at all, albeit an unused one, placed him in the minority in terms of preparedness for nuclear war.
    Jenn Morson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
  • So far, that view has remained in the minority, and support for Ukraine by Americans is rising.
    Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Democrats remain in the minority in both the Assembly and Senate.
    Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025

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