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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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At the University of Southern California, Wellness Society members pay $30 a semester for access to workout classes and mindfulness-based activities like bouquet making.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 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

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

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

At that point he was studying remotely having left Harvard after three semesters to join the Philadelphia Union.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

They have copy edited at The Daily Californian since their freshman spring, most recently serving two semesters as head editor of the copy desk.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

He talked about majors, semesters, units, and many other things I did not understand.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez


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