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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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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

Last spring, the university emailed me its estimated 2025-2026 cost of attendance for a full-time student living off campus: $16,000, or $8,000 per semester.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

During the club’s first semester as an official chapter in the spring of 2026, Roth said, he was surprised to see more women than men show up to events.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

My classmates had all heard the news by the time the semester began, but their words of consolation didn’t help very much.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

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

For two semesters, I dressed up to teach from my living room laptop, receiving excellent evaluations.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 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

In the evolving landscape of college basketball, talented freshmen fated to spend two semesters on campus before rushing off to the NBA draft used to be all the rage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

He asked why I’d chosen Jewish history, and without thinking I blurted that I’d learned of the Holocaust only a few semesters before and wanted to learn the rest of the story.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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