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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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First-year baseball coach Dino Flores of Fremont High teaches health, and for the entire semester, he had a freshman from Venezuela, Roiber Colmenares, sitting in class.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

King returned to Cal State L.A. in the 2025 spring semester.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 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

But I had to come down with whatchamacallit so that I wouldn’t have to team up with Katie for the working-with-a-partner project in social studies this semester.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen




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