term paper
noun
: a major written assignment in a school or college course representative of a student's achievement during a term
Examples of term paper in a Sentence
I have a term paper due next week.
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The organization’s petite midtown museum is calm and powerfully air conditioned, like the special corner of a college library perfect for cranking out a term paper.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
None has worked at a real paper before, but a couple of good sports tout their experience writing a junior high school term paper, and the other his social media posts from Twitter.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
Like the term paper, the not-to-scale model the FBI produced is no longer of use for the state’s planned purpose at trial.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 29 July 2025
DeSantis has lamented that students are using AI to write term papers and that Grok, X’s AI feature, didn’t know how many national championships the University of Florida had won in basketball and football.
—Skyler Swisher, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 July 2025
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
None has worked at a real paper before, but a couple of good sports tout their experience writing a junior high school term paper, and the other his social media posts from Twitter.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
Like the term paper, the not-to-scale model the FBI produced is no longer of use for the state’s planned purpose at trial.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 29 July 2025
DeSantis has lamented that students are using AI to write term papers and that Grok, X’s AI feature, didn’t know how many national championships the University of Florida had won in basketball and football.
—Skyler Swisher, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 July 2025
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“Term paper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/term%20paper. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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