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
Jay Blackman, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
Twelve people were transported to area hospitals with minor injuries after evacuating the Boeing 737-800, DIA spokesperson Michael Konopasek said.
—Katie Langford, Sun Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2025
Patrick Donnelly, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2025
Ahead of his Thursday, March 6 court appearance, authorities previously recovered videos from his iCloud account showing minors aged 7, 9, 11, and 14 being secretly recorded in the airplane restroom, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Twelve people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries, the Denver Fire Department said.
—Jay Blackman, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
Twelve people were transported to area hospitals with minor injuries after evacuating the Boeing 737-800, DIA spokesperson Michael Konopasek said.
—Katie Langford, Sun Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
The bench minor resulted in the game’s first power play, and Minnesota cashed in when Wood redirected Rinzel’s wrist shot from the center point past Say with 6.4 seconds to play in the period.
—Patrick Donnelly, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2025
Ahead of his Thursday, March 6 court appearance, authorities previously recovered videos from his iCloud account showing minors aged 7, 9, 11, and 14 being secretly recorded in the airplane restroom, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for minor
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
Follow,
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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Sitting in his idling pickup one afternoon, Sherlock watched as a Canadian Pacific train rumbled by the grain elevator in the small town of Wimbledon.—
Kirk Siegler,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2025
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In early December, Roberts returned to the place of his birth, traveling to the Japanese city of Naha on the small Pacific island of Okinawa to receive an official recognition from the municipality’s local government.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2025
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The juveniles gliding through the North Yuba today recently hatched from eggs that were deposited by scientists last fall.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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The juveniles were each issued a summons and released to their parents.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2025
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At 485 horsepower, the Scat Packs are just about there, but lack some of the low-end torque and certainly less drama from supercharger whine.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Cowboys and Dreamers differs from the core añejo expression in that the latter is aged for 18 months in French oak red wine barrels, so about six months less than this release.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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So, Apple Intelligence being inferior to Google’s offering doesn’t matter to them.—
Ben Sin,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Rocky, inferior to at least three of these, will be the winner, though.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Making one bet at a slight little edge is not going to have a huge effect on someone's bracket.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
20 Mar. 2025
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Zero Day held a slight lead with 1.84 billion minutes of viewing to 1.81 billion for Reacher.—
Rick Porter,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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Older children, adolescents and adults should get at least one shot of the MMR vaccine, with two doses separated by at least 28 days, the CDC says.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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Beyond women’s rugby, this applies to any program aimed at supporting, without judgment, all female athletes, all LGBTQ+ adolescents and young adults, all body types, and all those ready to better our world.—
Paige Perricone,
The Denver Post,
7 Mar. 2025
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The trestle will require the installation of some 1,200 36-inch steel piles covering an area of 400,000 square feet with the top of the pile being 10 feet above the Patapsco’s mean high-water line, according to the Army Corps.—
Michelle Deal-Zimmerman,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Mar. 2025
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The new analysis found that the mean fetal mortality rate for 16 Southern states in 2023 was 6.05 fetal deaths at 20 weeks’ gestation or more per 1,000 live births and fetal deaths, compared with a mean fetal mortality rate of 5.25 for all other states.—
Elizabeth Cohen,
NBC News,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Minor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minor. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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