semester
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She wanted him immersed in that kind of environment for a full semester, despite the big financial commitment for their family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
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
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’d been wondering whether something was wrong with me since the beginning of the semester, when I’d attended my first lecture on world affairs.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
They started Neros when Hichwa, who dropped out of college after three semesters, was 21, and Monroe-Anderson was 19.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
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
We were in the week between semesters at the time.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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