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minors

  • plural
    of minor.
    minor
    adjective
    lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two.
  • present tense form
    of minor (3rd person singular).
    minor
    adjective
    lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two.

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Usually, those devices were saved for heads of households, and not appended to youths and minors.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

As Jane Leavy explains in her outstanding biography, Sandy Koufax was then still an erratic pitcher, but the Dodgers were prohibited by league rules from sending him down to the minors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Though he’d carried high workloads in the minors before, being a major-league starting catcher comes with added responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Nonetheless, an overnight curfew for minors is expected to be announced for some parts of the city from Tuesday.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Among its provisions are establishing a forty-hour work week and a national minimum wage as well as prohibiting oppressive child labor and most employment of minors.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler