semester
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Part social club, part lifestyle brand, its members pay $30 a semester for access to workout classes and mindfulness-based activities, such as journaling and bouquet making.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Ottawa and Brussels are also understood to be working to have Canada participate in the EU's Erasmus youth program, which allows university students to spend a semester abroad, among other things.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
The second tripled monthly sales but left when her university semester resumed.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
The academic year is nine months long, so her budget of $1,500 per month comes to $13,500 for the school year, or $6,750 per semester.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
A lot of that comes from being good at sports, but it hasn’t really hurt me that I’m sidelined this semester.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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Given that fall and spring semesters run for a combined 30 weeks, this works out to roughly $107 an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Instead of taking on summer internships or job-shadowing opportunities between semesters, he worked a retail gig to pay for college.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
They have copy edited at The Daily Californian since their freshman spring, most recently serving two semesters as head editor of the copy desk.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
But what looks to some like abandonment feels to others like a new beginning – and that makes me excited to see how high the women in “Rooster” might fly in coming semesters.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
“No, he’s been gone since, like, two semesters ago. He, um...’
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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