semester
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This semester, she instructed a group of students picking green beans to be gentle and to do plank exercises to avoid back pain.
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
After that semester, Min opted to pack turkey or tuna salad sandwiches for school, using bulk ingredients that his family buys from Costco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
By the end of the semester the world felt big, and it was hard to imagine returning to the mountain, to a kitchen, or even to a piano in the room next to the kitchen.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
In the evolving landscape of college basketball, talented freshmen fated to spend two semesters on campus before rushing off to the NBA draft used to be all the rage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
I wasn’t a straight-A student, but I was always trying, and there were semesters when I got close.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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