semester
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They recruited over 800 members in their first semester running the group.
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
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
“I’m back visiting family. My semester ended last week, so I’m already on my summer vacation.”
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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
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
MIT, for example, allows undergraduates to take up to four semesters off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 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 wasn’t a straight-A student, but I was always trying, and there were semesters when I got close.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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