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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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Hampshire announced it would close permanently after the coming fall semester.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

This time along with Rossen Ventzislavov, an educator who brought me out to Woodbury University last spring as a fellow to teach a one-of-a-kind semester on Black modernism in architecture, design and popular culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

They gave daddy $855.53 per semester for four or five years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

To find their way into Cynthia’s unwieldy case at the start of the fall 2025 semester, Concannon and her teammates tackled the project much like a task force would, dividing it into sections.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Everyone expected him to get straight As his first semester, but for someone who had lived in a bus or on a boat for the last ten years, there were too many distractions.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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