semester
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The students are required to learn ancient Greek and are asked to leave if they fail a proficiency exam at the end of the first semester.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
"The goal is to keep the ghost student in school as long as possible. Semester after semester after semester stealing money from the taxpayers," McDonald said.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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
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
Barack’s teaching duties at the law school had wrapped up for the semester, and I’d put in for time off at my job.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
They started Neros when Hichwa, who dropped out of college after three semesters, was 21, and Monroe-Anderson was 19.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
I’ve already finished 6 semesters of high school Spanish online.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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