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major

[may-jer] / ˈmeɪ dʒər /




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Among the major findings in a collection of 722 papers were advances related to three of the five remaining Millennium Prize Problems, including the Riemann hypothesis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Firefighters have spent a second night at the scene of a major blaze at a scrapyard in Glasgow.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

On Sunday, there were no signs of any major gathering of protesters around the Jantar Mantar site despite calls from the CJP to march there.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Scientists have reached a major milestone in the quest to build an entirely new kind of clock.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The Fox sisters did make a return to the pages of the country’s major newspapers, alongside stories of railroad strikes, and state visits by European royalty.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The American League has thrown up an even more extreme case in the Tampa Bay Rays, who have the 27th payroll in the majors and are making small ball cool again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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

They tell clients in a note that Commonwealth Bank and ANZ were the strongest of the majors in business lending, with the former capturing 28% of flow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

He would be one of those drum majors for freedom that Martin Luther King talked about.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

"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

Doc attended Delaware State University, an HBCU, where he majored in mass communications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

At her parents’ insistence, she’d majored in chemistry, for they were hopeful she would follow in her father’s footsteps.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Despite her patchy schooling, Steinem received a scholarship to Smith College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa after majoring in government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

One Stanford undergraduate majoring in economics said their plans to stay for a fifth year to earn a master’s degree have been thrown into question.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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

In 1992, I started at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in communications and minoring in theater.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 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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