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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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This time along with Rossen Ventzislavov, an educator who brought me out to Woodbury University last spring as a fellow to teach a one-of-a-kind semester on Black modernism in architecture, design and popular culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

They gave daddy $855.53 per semester for four or five years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

The fall semester was more than halfway through when Stafford visited the UT–Arlington forensic lab on Nov. 6.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Gus’s interest in Mary—whose mother, Anna, is a television host in London—turns romantic after she becomes Mary’s model for a semester.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The first semester, in addition to the book list, I had this class called Intro to Wall Street that required me to pick up the New York Times and Wall Street Journal every day.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini




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