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is majoring

  • present progressive of major (3rd person singular).

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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

Mabon is now a junior at Morehouse, where he is majoring in sociology.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 19, 2023

“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 Lutz, Grace Livingston Hill