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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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She found Finch after a tough semester of graduate school where she felt like she was “falling apart as a person.”

From Slate Sep. 6, 2026

Each Friday during the spring semester, students practice the basic techniques of archaeological fieldwork while investigating Mission San Francisco de Potano, a centuries-old site in northwest Gainesville.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

Louth, 20 years old, said he earned all A’s and one B in his first semester and doubted he would have worked as hard had the classes been pass/fail.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Noticing a need for affordable meals, Palacios and fellow USC student Josiah Herfurth spent this past semester hosting $10-per-person lunches at their college apartments, dubbing the offering Cafe 10:31.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

“I took a class last semester with this crazy old hippie, Professor Weltzer. He was funny, made everybody call him Rick. Anyway, what do you write? Poems? Short stories? Screenplays?”

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

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

He is enrolling in a UF online program for the first few semesters and paying an extra fee package to access services like the campus gym and student-section football-game tickets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 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

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

In front of me were documents from my soon-to-be college, thanking us for our payment in full for the first two semesters.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour




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