How to Use in the minority in a Sentence
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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
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That puts them in the minority of counties in the country.
—Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
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These House clowns are dying to be back in the minority.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 1 Nov. 2023
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The truth is, Black adults who visit Disney are in the minority.
—Ayana Lage, Allure, 22 Aug. 2023
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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
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The court found in favor of Congress, with O’Connor and one other justice in the minority.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
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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
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The four justices in the minority took a different view.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 25 May 2023
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Yeger and Marte are distinctly in the minority, though.
—Curbed, 24 Oct. 2022
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Despite being in the minority, however, the deep water wells are where the costs pile up.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
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Heimerl relishes working in the field again, where women still are in the minority.
—Carol Deptolla, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2022
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Even if the House passes a bill, the measure would be dead on arrival in the Senate where Republicans are in the minority.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2024
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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
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While the rest of the league made a flurry of deals before Tuesday’s deadline, the Rangers remained in the minority, making only one deal before the clock ran out of time.
—Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
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In provinces where Muslims were in the minority, the Congress however refused to form a coalition with the League.
—Nahal Sheikh, JSTOR Daily, 15 May 2024
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Garcetti said that any cautionary voices were in the minority in his office.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
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The fight came just days before the country’s new President-elect Lai Ching-te is set to take office on Monday with his party in the minority.
—Brie Stimson, Fox News, 17 May 2024
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Because Democrats are in the minority in the House, albeit a slim one, Stanton conceded that the effort to force a vote was not going to be successful.
—Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2023
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Give it five years and, in my social circles at least, the monogamous people will probably be in the minority.
—Shon Faye, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
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The Senate passed the same bill in April, with three Republican senators in the minority voting against the measure.
—Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
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The Senate passed the same bill in April, with three Republican senators in the minority voting against the measure.
—Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
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That will inevitably blow back on people who are in the minority and who express protest or dissent in strong terms against whoever’s in power.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
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Mazda hopes that this feature will extend the appeal of the RX-7 convertible into climates where warm days are in the minority.
—Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
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Rather than simply voting against the party in power, earmarks give lawmakers in the minority party some skin in the game.
—Andrew Zhang, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2022
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Some senior members didn’t relish the prospect of serving in the minority party if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
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Joseph said the three sectors now in the minority were involved with a powerful member of Haiti’s private sector to gain the majority on the council with Leblanc.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
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But the prospect of being in the minority can suddenly make white identity — and all the historical privilege that comes with it — salient.
—Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 11 Oct. 2022
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Wisconsin is in the minority of states that have not legalized marijuana use in some form.
—Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
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Combined with opposition to vouchers from Democrats in the minority, school choice policies have struggled for votes.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2023
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The four judges in the minority found nothing improper in a judge hearing a case after receiving $3 million in campaign contributions from a party in the case before him.
—Irwin E. Weiss, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2024
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