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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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Francis said she was appalled upon learning the result of the appeal two days into the current semester.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Unlike most of the alleged assailants, Doe left college after what Giuffra has described as a “horrifying” semester in which she had to attend classes “where she saw these guys on a fairly regular basis.”

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Students surrender their phones at the start of the semester, where they remain in phone jail for the duration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

She found Finch after a tough semester of graduate school where she felt like she was “falling apart as a person.”

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

The final examinations were not too much of a problem to me that semester, and I made all A’s.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

For two semesters, I dressed up to teach from my living room laptop, receiving excellent evaluations.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Lee then focused on graduating early, packing his remaining coursework into two dense semesters — taking seven classes during one of them.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

He is enrolling in a UF online program for the first few semesters and paying an extra fee package to access services like the campus gym and student-section football-game tickets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

They have copy edited at The Daily Californian since their freshman spring, most recently serving two semesters as head editor of the copy desk.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

I wasn’t a straight-A student, but I was always trying, and there were semesters when I got close.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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