minion
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darling, fave, favorite, pet, preference, speed
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To the old me, calling someone a minion was to use fighting words. — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, "Column: Forget meat candy, try these lemony smoked Greek ribs," 12 July 2019 Husbands are sent to jail, children are taken away by the clipboard-toting minions of Authority, disease descends. — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, "I Am Cancer," 25 July 2019 From coughing up slug-like creatures (which turned out to be a part of the Demogorgon) to feeling pain whenever the Mind Flayer or its minions were injured, Will was an unwilling host. — Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR, "What Happened in Season 2 of Stranger Things?," 3 July 2019 Indeed, Zuckerberg and his minions have described VR as the logical next step in the social experience Facebook itself created for billions of people. — Aric Jenkins, Fortune, "The Fall and Rise of VR: The Struggle to Make Virtual Reality Get Real," 20 June 2019 The cat in this video seems to have learned to get his human minion to open the door by knocking. — Liz Langley, National Geographic, "Here’s why cats hate belly rubs so much," 11 June 2019 Many of its creatures are soldiers, clerics, and knights, and its spells focus on increasing the health and the attack of your minions (also known as buffs) or healing them (or yourself) instead. — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, "How to Play 'Magic: The Gathering': Everything You Need to Know," 19 Feb. 2019 His future, and the future of his adoring minions, depended on the outcome of this interview. — Eric Johnson, Recode, "Google’s former PR boss Jessica Powell wrote a satirical novel about tech and published it all on Medium," 2 Oct. 2018 Cortex's failed attempt to turn the Bandicoot into a minion results in rebellion. — Harold Goldberg, chicagotribune.com, "Classic games, lovingly reimagined in 'Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy'," 13 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'minion.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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