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semester

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

Last semester one team, led by a cancer survivor, proposed an AI-native care coordinator for cancer patients.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Their stories reveal the trade-offs of early graduation: Every semester saved in tuition is also potentially one less semester to gain the internships and connections that help launch careers.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

The next day, she was placed on administrative leave and told her contract would end after the semester.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

The fall semester was quickly coming to a close.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

For two semesters, I dressed up to teach from my living room laptop, receiving excellent evaluations.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Lee then focused on graduating early, packing his remaining coursework into two dense semesters — taking seven classes during one of them.

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

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

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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