Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The
minor leagues , those leagues of professional sports teams less proficient than themajors , ormajor leagues .
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- noun Plural form of
minor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)
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Examples
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Andy Sonnanstine, who slid from 13-game winner in 2008 to a good portion of last season in the minors is the veteran insurance.
Tampa Bay Rays bullpen was key in 2008 run, again in 2010 2010
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An online survey with 2000 or less respondents, most of which are minors, is NOT a valid, scientific way to prove any kind of theory!
The Privacy Coalition nathreee 2009
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Well, writing laws specifically for the protection of minors is one thing, but interpreting laws in that way is quite another.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Big First Amendment win in United States v. Stevens 2010
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David Koresh, as far as I know, was not the Messiah, and sex with minors is still acrime.
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Of course depicting the sexuality of minors is always going to be touchy, but Sigismondi handles it pretty perfectly.
Movie Review and Discussion: The Runaways (Guest: Marisa Meltzer, Author of Girl Power) | /Film 2010
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Filming death scenes for minors is much different then filming, say, sex scenes.
Twilight Lexicon » Another Image of Jodelle Ferland as Bree 2010
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Time in minors led to Boudreau's coaching philosophy - USATODAY. com
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Even the fictional portrayal of any form of sexual activity between adults and minors is so stigmatized that no legitimate publisher will touch it, and pedophilia is the one character attribute that is considered to be ultimately, unmitigatedly evil.
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Time in minors led to Boudreau's coaching philosophy
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Priests making sexual advances toward minors is a “homosexual crisis” in the same way that a male drill instructor making sexual advances toward female recruits is a “heterosexual crisis.”
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