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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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The friends saw the opportunity just as their semester abroad in London was winding down.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

First-year baseball coach Dino Flores of Fremont High teaches health, and for the entire semester, he had a freshman from Venezuela, Roiber Colmenares, sitting in class.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

King returned to Cal State L.A. in the 2025 spring semester.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

In 1970, during her last semester of undergrad, Leath married Ed Dossett, whom she met at East Tennessee State before he moved on to law school.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Then Ambady compared those snap judgments of teacher effectiveness with evaluations of those same professors made by their students after a full semester of classes, and she found that they were also essentially the same.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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