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semester

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

"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

She’s seen him at lunch every day, and now that it’s second semester, they have AP English Comp together.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

It was hard for her to stomach the fact that had things not collapsed in Afghanistan, she would have been four semesters from completing medical school and beginning her practical rotations at a hospital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

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 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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