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the transitional period between childhood and adulthood
a teenager during his minority has some of the rights of an adult, but not all
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Recent Examples of minorities
The language of civil rights will always be most appealing to political minorities in search of procedural arguments to temper or frustrate the will of the majority.
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Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Not a lot of minorities on pit row at a NASCAR race.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2026
The amendment says congressional districts cannot be drawn with the intent to favor a political party or incumbent, or with the intent to deny the rights of racial or language minorities, among other requirements.
—Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
Compared with white people, Black people and other racial minorities have historically participated far less in clinical trials — the primary staging ground for exploring the efficacy and safety of drugs.
—Jerel Ezell, STAT, 1 May 2026
Section Two of the 1965 Voting Rights Act aimed to prevent mapmakers from weakening the voting power of racial minorities by either packing them into one district or spreading them out across too many districts to have an impact.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
While the court technically kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, the ruling contributes to a series of decisions undermining the landmark 1965 law that protected racial minorities' collective voting power.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 30 Apr. 2026
Four years later, the Supreme Court interpreted that to mean that states had a duty to draw voting districts that would elect a Black or Latino candidate if these minorities had a sufficiently large number of voters in a particular area.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
Before joining Daqo New Energy, Zhang was an executive at JinkoSolar, another Chinese firm that has been accused of benefiting from China’s repression of ethnic and religious minorities.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 26 Apr. 2026
Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Not a lot of minorities on pit row at a NASCAR race.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2026
The amendment says congressional districts cannot be drawn with the intent to favor a political party or incumbent, or with the intent to deny the rights of racial or language minorities, among other requirements.
—Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
Compared with white people, Black people and other racial minorities have historically participated far less in clinical trials — the primary staging ground for exploring the efficacy and safety of drugs.
—Jerel Ezell, STAT, 1 May 2026
Section Two of the 1965 Voting Rights Act aimed to prevent mapmakers from weakening the voting power of racial minorities by either packing them into one district or spreading them out across too many districts to have an impact.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
While the court technically kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, the ruling contributes to a series of decisions undermining the landmark 1965 law that protected racial minorities' collective voting power.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 30 Apr. 2026
Four years later, the Supreme Court interpreted that to mean that states had a duty to draw voting districts that would elect a Black or Latino candidate if these minorities had a sufficiently large number of voters in a particular area.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
Before joining Daqo New Energy, Zhang was an executive at JinkoSolar, another Chinese firm that has been accused of benefiting from China’s repression of ethnic and religious minorities.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 26 Apr. 2026
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“Minorities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minorities. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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