major
noun
a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
is majoring
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present progressiveof major (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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When senior Malaya Galindez, 21, who aspires to be a physician and is majoring in health and human sciences, told her parents that she intended to minor in comedy, her father was surprised.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Will is a rising senior at Dartmouth College, where he is majoring in English and has served as sports editor at the Dartmouth, America's oldest college newspaper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2025
Arshia Papari stands below the UT Tower in Austin on Aug. 6, 2024 Papari, a rising sophomore is majoring in government.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2024
“Right now, we are not students who work, but workers who study,” said Ms. Rivera Sánchez, who is majoring in mathematics and working as a software engineering trainee.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2023
My cousin has been telling me how you have been looking after some of the work of a student who is majoring in sociology, so I'm beginning to understand why you took this girl up.
From The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
