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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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A high schooler can enroll as early as freshman year and earn up to 11 college credits per semester.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

A lucky few leave the semester with job offers waiting for them after college.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

A semester later, he was at Edison and a month and a half after that, at Chaminade-Madonna in Hollywood.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

It should be that you say there’s a lot of life change that happens over the 45 months from being a fall freshman to an end of an 8th semester, second semester senior.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

At the end of the semester, after the elections, we were to turn in a scrapbook with all the articles about the campaign published in the Santa Maria Times, the local newspaper.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez




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