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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

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

The liberal-arts college has roughly 2,000 undergraduates, and some of them take multiple computer-science courses each semester.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

I was only a month into the semester, but even so I knew a scholarship was comically out of reach.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

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

“No, he’s been gone since, like, two semesters ago. He, um...’

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older


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