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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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Hampshire College will permanently close after the coming fall semester, after financial struggles.

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

The fall semester was more than halfway through when Stafford visited the UT–Arlington forensic lab on Nov. 6.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

He was studying for his GED, and one night when we were driving back from a job, he told me he was going to try a semester at a community college.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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