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major

[may-jer] / ˈmeɪ dʒər /




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A meeting between a CEO and a major customer is routine business practice, Lee told MarketWatch, and that’s “precisely what makes these intelligence operations so difficult.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

The major networks each have their own decision desk where statisticians, political scientists and analysts pore over vote counts, historical trends and polling to determine a winner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

“I’ve heard about her since I was a kid,” said Shropshire-Maina, a communications major.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

The discovery does not yet settle the question of what caused the universe's last major phase transition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Not to anything major, of course, but you were put on a Glitch platform and sent to a deserted field somewhere in the past to get used to the whole experience.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

British energy giant BP and US majors Chevron and ExxonMobil will report their third-quarter earnings on Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Friday’s buyback hike is Eni’s third of the year and illustrates how the conflict in the Middle East and record high refining margins are offering energy majors an unexpected windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

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 searches the audience for someone he knows, but it isn’t his crowd—lots of lit majors with leather satchels and gold- rimmed glasses and fountain pens, lots of people Ruth would have waved to.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

By graduation, they had basically majored in popsicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 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

Thankfully, Ritu auntie had majored in small talk in college.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Now, in the fall 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

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

At the Kelley School, where currently 278 students are majoring in real estate, faculty picked only 20 to manage the private-equity fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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 tells me he's majoring in photography and that one of his professors told him to take as many photographs as he could over the summer.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman


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