academic term

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These latest rallies began on Saturday, the first day of a new academic term, and are the most significant example of collective protest since last month’s demonstrations were crushed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

The Secretariat warned that schools would be unable to maintain regular operation of the second academic term under the current restrictions.

From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026

For them, the new academic term restarts a threat to the status quo.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024

The school rules, like virtually all “postvention” guidelines for addressing suicide deaths, are particularly concerned with suicide contagion, an academic term for the way suicide reproduces in social groups.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

In the autumn, he returned to Wolfsborough Academy, and at the close of the academic term, went again to Natick, Mass., where he taught school during the winter of 1837-8.

From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.