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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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They gave daddy $855.53 per semester for four or five years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

My dad said, `No, Mr. Wahl, I’ve got to pay $855.53 for that boy’s semester.’

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Each semester, I would take my students to study frustrated users’ attempts to figure out the D.C.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

Gus’s interest in Mary—whose mother, Anna, is a television host in London—turns romantic after she becomes Mary’s model for a semester.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

I was shocked out of this resignation two weeks into the fall semester, when I awoke one night to a blinding pain in my jaw.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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