semester
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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
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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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