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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

Ishaan Shah recalls being rejected by the quantitative-trading club at Penn in his first semester of college.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

The only class we have together this semester is PE.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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

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

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

Claudio Neves Valente, 48 years old, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, planned the attack for at least six semesters, according to video transcripts released by the Justice Department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

In front of me were documents from my soon-to-be college, thanking us for our payment in full for the first two semesters.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour


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