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semester

[si-mes-ter] / sɪˈmɛs tər /
NOUN
term
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A high schooler can enroll as early as freshman year and earn up to 11 college credits per semester.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

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

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

Perhaps she could defer at Yale for a semester and start late.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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