semester
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Part social club, part lifestyle brand, its members pay $30 a semester for access to workout classes and mindfulness-based activities, such as journaling and bouquet making.
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
He urged me to switch to nursing at the end of the semester.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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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
Given that fall and spring semesters run for a combined 30 weeks, this works out to roughly $107 an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Lee then focused on graduating early, packing his remaining coursework into two dense semesters — taking seven classes during one of them.
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
“I want to take college classes online. I mean...well, I’ve been taking them for 2 semesters already, but under Nana’s name. For fun.”
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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