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Skydance is formidable now, combining two streaming rivals, a major studio and a rich content library.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
"My biggest concern is the continued loss of greenfield land to major developments in Dumfries and Galloway," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
A major tension at the summit will be money, with the report finding that the effort to close a yawning gap in necessary finance "falls far short" of what is needed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
It is the first major release from Skydance, the company formed when Paramount completed its $111-billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
On the first day of the invasion, in the first major battle of the war, the Germans, to their astonishment, met determined Belgian resistance.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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With Kartal absent from three of the four majors, no British women went past the second round of a Grand Slam tournament in 2026.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Shell and other oil majors are seeing "an unprecedented widening of the refining spread", said Kathleen Brooks, research director at trading group XTB.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
No Dodger ranked among the top 16 in the majors in home runs or the top 37 in RBIs, yet they were fourth in runs scored.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
He’s one of the few .300 hitters left in the majors, yet he has never hit a single home run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Mathematics majors who continue their studies will find that graduate education in mathematics, in great contrast to that at lower levels, is the best in the world.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Before choosing to coach, Venable majored in anthropology at Princeton and worked as a special assistant to Theo Epstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"Since I am the first I feel a great responsibility to pave the way for other women athletes who love playing games as much as I do," said Park, who majored in taekwondo in college.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
She attended Brandeis University, where she majored in political science and performed in musicals and cabaret.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
After coming through the LTA system, Fery opted to go on a scholarship to Stanford University in California - a prestigious institution that specialises in research - and majored in science, technology and society.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
“I should have majored in engineering or something,” she told Curt.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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At Bowling Green State University in Ohio, Saint switched from training to be a teacher to majoring in drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Starting in 2013, the number of students majoring in sociology dropped from 31,000 to 21,000 in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
While studying in an NYU library, he met Sarah Fryer, who was majoring in psychology and biology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
He walked onto the team at Texas A&M, majoring in business finance, planning to stick around campus long enough to earn a master’s degree.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026
“I’m majoring in philosophy at the University at Albany. I have to think about my future.”
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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