semester
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Students surrender their phones at the start of the semester, where they remain in phone jail for the duration.
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
Each Friday during the spring semester, students practice the basic techniques of archaeological fieldwork while investigating Mission San Francisco de Potano, a centuries-old site in northwest Gainesville.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
But he found himself rationing the meal swipes, starting the semester conservatively and ending with extras, which he used by inviting his friends to come with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 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
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
At that point he was studying remotely having left Harvard after three semesters to join the Philadelphia Union.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
He is enrolling in a UF online program for the first few semesters and paying an extra fee package to access services like the campus gym and student-section football-game tickets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
Our parents pay on a semester basis, which means that in seven semesters, yours have invested...Who has a calculator?
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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