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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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They recruited over 800 members in their first semester running the group.

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

Later, during my brief stint in seminary — I dropped out to head to a liberal arts college after a semester — women sometimes joked about pursuing their “MRS. degrees.”

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Ms. LaFleur liked me at the beginning of the semester, but I’ve missed a lot of school, so she doesn’t like me that much now.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Upon appeal, Shanklin’s two-semester suspension from school and campus activities was lessened to four semesters of probation during which he could remain on campus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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

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

Mama had Janae while she was a teenager herself and only went for a couple of semesters before dropping out when she got pregnant with me.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi


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