Example Sentences

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Madison Everlith is a rising senior at Pace University in New York City, majoring in women and gender studies, along with peace and justice studies.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Katie Karroum, a Cal State Northridge senior majoring in communication studies, said AI has been “inconsistently used and applied.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

A Wellesley College junior, majoring in economics as well as “peace and justice studies,” complained to the Journal about narrow job opportunities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

Watson thought of majoring in ornithology, the study of birds, but changed to genetics - influenced by Erwin Schrodinger's book What is Life?

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

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