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- noun A short, usually intensive course on a subject of study.
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- noun A brief educational
course
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Examples
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Someone taught the few youngsters in our crowd coconut painting, and a long-time Cuban refugee lepidopterist taught a minicourse for ages eight to twelve at the community college.
Ann Beattie's 'The Rock': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010
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Someone taught the few youngsters in our crowd coconut painting, and a long-time Cuban refugee lepidopterist taught a minicourse for ages eight to twelve at the community college.
Ann Beattie's 'The Rock': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010
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At home, we bring our own putters-always a surprise to the attendantand play so often that we have punch cards at the local minicourse ten games earns you a free one and can whip through the eighteen holes at a lightning pace.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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At home, we bring our own putters-always a surprise to the attendantand play so often that we have punch cards at the local minicourse ten games earns you a free one and can whip through the eighteen holes at a lightning pace.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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At home, we bring our own putters-always a surprise to the attendantand play so often that we have punch cards at the local minicourse ten games earns you a free one and can whip through the eighteen holes at a lightning pace.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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At home, we bring our own putters-always a surprise to the attendantand play so often that we have punch cards at the local minicourse ten games earns you a free one and can whip through the eighteen holes at a lightning pace.
The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009
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We are subjected, for example, to a minicourse in the geography and topography of the city: "New Orleans is surrounded by water on all sides" -- as opposed to being surrounded on one side?
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Russell wanted to create a packaged minicourse in black history, complete with film strip, record albums, and a booklet.
THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007
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"We initiated the minicourse to fit the unstretched attention span, and grade inflation to flatter those we couldn't control."
Book Randomness Tag! Cheryl 2005
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Farther on down the road there is a chapter that is a minicourse in how to make the best possible decisions.
The Pathfinder Nicholas Lore 1998
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