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
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
Yesterday wasn’t bad— way better than walking into a new school in the middle of the semester.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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For two semesters, I dressed up to teach from my living room laptop, receiving excellent evaluations.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 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
Claudio Neves Valente, 48 years old, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, planned the attack for at least six semesters, according to video transcripts released by the Justice Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
But after winning the College World Series as a sophomore at USC, he accepted a $37,500 bonus to leave school five semesters short of a degree to sign with the Angels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2025
Esther’s laugh always reminded me of Abigail, a girl I had seen during my first two semesters of secondary school in Bo Town.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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