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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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For students at UC Riverside, the start of fall semester means picking up their class syllabus, catching up with friends and snapping selfies with the adorable wild donkeys that roam around the school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Unlike most of the alleged assailants, Doe left college after what Giuffra has described as a “horrifying” semester in which she had to attend classes “where she saw these guys on a fairly regular basis.”

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

She wanted him immersed in that kind of environment for a full semester, despite the big financial commitment for their family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

She found Finch after a tough semester of graduate school where she felt like she was “falling apart as a person.”

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

This semester, Jennifer was out of fashion, and J-names for boys were in.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

It was hard for her to stomach the fact that had things not collapsed in Afghanistan, she would have been four semesters from completing medical school and beginning her practical rotations at a hospital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Lee then focused on graduating early, packing his remaining coursework into two dense semesters — taking seven classes during one of them.

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

He asked why I’d chosen Jewish history, and without thinking I blurted that I’d learned of the Holocaust only a few semesters before and wanted to learn the rest of the story.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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