term paper

noun

1. a long essay, report, or the like, written by a student as an assignment over the course of a term or semester.

Word History and Origins

Origin of term paper¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

In late 2022, after ChatGPT launched, many schools initially banned AI, fearing it would be used to churn out term papers, compose presentations and farm out math homework.

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Others don’t give students computers, forcing them to write term papers on tablets that lack external keyboards.

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“It’s like having every term paper, every piece of homework that you accumulate from first through 12th grade and in college,” he said.

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I’m embarrassed to admit this, but as a young film student trained to think of movies as something to be solved in a term paper, Lynch once frustrated me immensely.

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He had been barred from leaving the building during the raid, which meant he was unable to get home and finish a term paper.

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