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major

[may-jer] / ˈmeɪ dʒər /




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Marano Lunderborg and Lizzi Bickford Meadow started the business in 2019 to advise brands on how to reach elite shoppers, especially those who had moved outside major cities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Other California grocery chains have also had to make major changes to their store footprints.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

An equity selloff coincided with an already “weak and vulnerable” gold market that was hovering just above its major July support level of $3,975, said Samuelson.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

He, too, can expect a major career boost.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

As decades pass without a major disaster, people begin to move back into the low-lying areas by the water.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Third-quarter earnings reports from the five global oil majors are apt to show $54 billion in available new cash.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Wawrinka was good enough to win majors, but he wasn't as consistently good as his illustrious rivals.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Oil majors will be judged on how well they have managed to control costs and keep refineries running—a metric the industry refers to as refinery utilization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

At the peak in the fall of 2023, 2,503 undergraduate students at Michigan were declared computer-science majors, up 235% from 748 students in the fall of 2013, .

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

He was old when he made it to the majors.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

"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

But AI wasn’t allowed for quizzes or exams testing memorized subjects, said the 22-year-old, who majored in business computer information systems.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

He majored in English history, which was a mistake.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The number of students majoring in computer science dropped to 212 in 2026, down 19% from the 2021 peak, according to Dartmouth data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Now, in the fall term of 2026, 1,315 students enrolled at Michigan are majoring in computer science — down 48% from the 2023 peak, university data show.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

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

“Yeah. She’s interested as hell in all that stuff. She’s majoring in psychology.”

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger


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