semester
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Ms. LaFleur liked me at the beginning of the semester, but I’ve missed a lot of school, so she doesn’t like me that much now.
From Literature
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Claudio Neves Valente, 48 years old, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, planned the attack for at least six semesters, according to video transcripts released by the Justice Department.
On one of the last days of the fall semester, students brought their own cars to the shop.
From Los Angeles Times
After the first semester under the new rules, Harvard-Westlake school leaders reported promising results — and some students said they no longer are reflexively reaching for their phones and are sleeping better.
From Los Angeles Times
Economist Hengchen Dai and colleagues show that people are more likely to launch new goals after salient dates—birthdays, Mondays, the start of a semester and, of course, Jan. 1.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.