Majors Tense After One Chap Swallows Drink

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Updated: September 1, 2025

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adjective • of great significance or value • important in effect or meaning • of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis adjective satellite • having authority or ascendancy or influence • having or suggesting a consciousness of high position
	37%	4		Where majors have majors, in brief?
noun • a training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers
	34%	8		Taking big swallows of a drink
noun • the dull explosive noise made by an engine verb • make a dull, explosive sound

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