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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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The second tripled monthly sales but left when her university semester resumed.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The liberal-arts college has roughly 2,000 undergraduates, and some of them take multiple computer-science courses each semester.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

And so the prospect of watching an eight-hour adaptation of the novel stretched out before me like a five-year semester in which every class was P.E.

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

He was studying for his GED, and one night when we were driving back from a job, he told me he was going to try a semester at a community college.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

For two semesters, I dressed up to teach from my living room laptop, receiving excellent evaluations.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 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

It’s a habit of creating and destroying that she formed as a student at Claremont High School, where she studied the craft for two semesters, yet fired zero pieces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

I’ve already finished 6 semesters of high school Spanish online.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty


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