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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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"The goal is to keep the ghost student in school as long as possible. Semester after semester after semester stealing money from the taxpayers," McDonald said.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ottawa and Brussels are also understood to be working to have Canada participate in the EU's Erasmus youth program, which allows university students to spend a semester abroad, among other things.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

During the club’s first semester as an official chapter in the spring of 2026, Roth said, he was surprised to see more women than men show up to events.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

The liberal-arts college has roughly 2,000 undergraduates, and some of them take multiple computer-science courses each semester.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

My father was beginning to recover when the second semester began, but he was a shell of a man.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

It was hard for her to stomach the fact that had things not collapsed in Afghanistan, she would have been four semesters from completing medical school and beginning her practical rotations at a hospital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

But after winning the College World Series as a sophomore at USC, he accepted a $37,500 bonus to leave school five semesters short of a degree to sign with the Angels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2025

Penelope had taken three semesters of art appreciation at the Swanburne Academy, so she had no doubt whatsoever.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood


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