semester
Example Sentences
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Stein attended UC Berkeley, majoring in political science, but he left about a semester shy of graduating.
From Los Angeles Times
Near the end of his first semester, Toner-Rodgers told some friends he had stumbled on an interesting lead.
After the Israeli military called up more than 300,000 reservists, colleges and universities in Israel postponed the start of the fall semester until at least early November.
From Science Magazine
Darek DeFreece, the UC Berkeley project’s founder and executive director, said the campus envisions offering students a “semester in Silicon Valley” with both academic classes and internships, and possible faculty sabbaticals at the site.
From Los Angeles Times
"I was an international student myself and can relate to the stresses of settling in during the first semester in the U.S. a little bit" Rajbhandari-Thapa said.
From Science Daily
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