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Compliance, payroll, and even minor elements like time zones and equitable benefits are historically difficult to reconcile with a global workforce.
—Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
State and federal lawyers for the U.S. Transportation Department both argued that the separate bike and pedestrian path would have been a minor element of the bridge’s design, one that the state said would only have been used for a tiny fraction of the 7 million annual crossings.
—Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
That said, while listening via a live audio link, the Erik Wemple Blog grimaced at the Times’s argument that Palin was a minor element of the editorial.
—Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
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First Known Use
1941, in the meaning defined above
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“Minor element.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minor%20element. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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