1
as in lesser
having not so great importance or rank as another
some minor official with an exaggerated sense of his own importance
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2
as in smaller
of little or less value or merit
a minor poet who is little read nowadays
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3
as in small
lacking importance
only a minor detail, which we can easily disregard for the moment
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as in juvenile
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Recent Examples of minor
Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
The charges included one count of malice murder and one count of felony murder; three counts of cruelty to children in the first degree; three counts of false imprisonment; three counts of contributing to the dependency of a minor; and three counts of kidnapping.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 19 June 2025
Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 18 June 2025
To name just a few, there’s Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049: II (Andante); Chopin’s 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 4 in C sharp minor; and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18: I (Moderato).
—Zachary Przystup, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
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Adjective
While the latest inflation and jobs market reports showed that any disruption caused by tariffs has so far been minor, the Fed is clearly being careful about what could happen in the coming weeks and months.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
The charges included one count of malice murder and one count of felony murder; three counts of cruelty to children in the first degree; three counts of false imprisonment; three counts of contributing to the dependency of a minor; and three counts of kidnapping.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 19 June 2025
Noun
Tennessee is one of 24 states with laws in effect banning all gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
—Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 18 June 2025
To name just a few, there’s Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049: II (Andante); Chopin’s 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 4 in C sharp minor; and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18: I (Moderato).
—Zachary Przystup, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
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Adjective
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Toronto’s Fred VanVleet appears to be the top target, but Miami’s Kyle Lowry, Utah’s Mike Conley and, perhaps to a lesser extent, Charlotte’s Terry Rozier have been linked to the team at various points.—
Staff Writer
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Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2023
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The story of 2022 (and 2021 to a lesser extent) was energy.—
Nicole Goodkind,
CNN,
31 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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The small core teams who operate them are usually experts in biodiversity and community engagement, but not marketing.—
Michelle Greenwald,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Part of Season 1’s success may be put down to its offering a fresh take on daily life in smaller city rural Portugal, Cunha Telles noted at Conecta Fiction.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
18 June 2025
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Lundes went from juvenile camp to juvenile camp and then to the California Youth Authority, the ineffective and poorly run state system that has since been shut down.—
Ivan Kashinsky,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2025
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The budget contains five new projects, though: a sheriff’s station in Ramona, new electric vehicle charging stations for county vehicles, a 16-bed crisis center for youths, a facility for juveniles incarcerated for short periods of time and a training tower for county fire personnel.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 June 2025
Adjective
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The mission was the 3rd in less than 30 hours for SpaceX among its 2 Florida and 1 California launch pads.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 2025
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Ahn's unit was getting less meat and fish in their meals.—
Se Eun Gong,
NPR,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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Told that Indigenous people were evolutionarily inferior to white Europeans and Americans, visitors accepted the idea that colonialist progress would soon condemn these groups to extinction.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 June 2025
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The Pacers are just way more inferior and the Thunder got stagnant all of a sudden.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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Monday saw some dips and slight drops, but the market rebounded and closed up almost 1%.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Advertisement Even with such protections, the slightest communication advantage is worrying in the wrong hands, especially when deployed at a mass scale.—
Andrew Luttrell,
Time,
24 June 2025
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The study also focused only on children and adolescents.—
Jackie Fortiér,
CNN Money,
13 June 2025
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Now, adolescents and adults who have not been previously vaccinated receive only one shot, and myocarditis no longer shows up in the data, O'Leary said, referring to the CDC's Vaccine Safety Datalink.—
Jackie Fortiér,
NPR,
13 June 2025
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Similarly, the mean costs associated with traveling to access care rose from $179 pre-ban to $372 post-ban.—
Chantelle Lee,
Time,
26 June 2025
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Yosemite Hospitality's overall rating is mean to identify the areas needed for improvement, and NPS did not state if the contract would be terminated.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
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“Minor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minor. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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