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major

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UK /ˈmeɪdʒə(r)/US /ˈmeɪdʒər/
adjective

very large or important

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Uh, so we had as investors and customers Hachette Corporation, Knight-Ridder, um, most of the major US print publishers.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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The hands were those of our speaker, Jeff Bezos, a self-described nerdy commuter commu computer science and electrical engineering major who graduated from Princeton with highest honors in 1986.

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