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noun

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Recent Examples of drop out
Verb
On this issue, the White House and Earle-Sears align -- she's also called for Jones to drop out, and has even cut an ad featuring screenshots of the aforementioned texts. Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025 Jones cannot drop out of the race entirely. Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
Long-standing controller staffing shortages — exacerbated by insufficient hiring, extensive training timelines and high dropout rates — have remained a problem in the years since. Joel Rose, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025 The Mastermind is about an art-school dropout who becomes a noncommittal carpenter, and then, in his 30s, decides to try out a life of crime by stealing some paintings from his local museum. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drop out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drop out
Verb
  • White’s legal team challenged it, and in late 2022 an appeals court ruled that the judge had erred in not letting White withdraw his guilty plea.
    Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In January, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger also withdrew from West African regional bloc Ecowas, having earlier formed their own Alliance of Sahel States grouping.
    Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His discoveries promise to upset the gaming tables of every school of thought that wagers on new and untested art for idlers’ rewards: the love of novelty, the will to make or unmake reputations, the wish to be hip or au courant.
    Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
  • Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.
    Gaby Keiderling, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023
Verb
  • Staff at The Free Press are eager to start working with CBS News; reporter Olivia Reingold appeared on CBS News Friday morning to discuss her report that anonymous NYPD officers had been threatening to quit the force if Zohran Mamdani is elected New York City mayor.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Apparently, many workers crash out and quit on the third Wednesday at the job.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But Salah, who travelled several hours a day just to reach training as a youngster, is no quitter.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And the most unattractive thing in the world to me is a quitter.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • But those loved by Amal and co-signed by the likes of Dakota Johnson (who wears hers with loafers) represent the perfect hybrid between the skinny and straight cut.
    Michel Mejía, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Loafers / slip-on flats Transition into autumn with the perfect pair of loafers or slip-on flats.
    Nora Colomer may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Climate change is supercharging the winds of the strongest Nor’easters, a recent study found, and this one will be no slouch.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The Tigers are no slouch in the American Conference and have respectable College Football Playoff aspirations.
    Sam Sklar, Mississippi Clarion Ledger, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The high-concept social experiment show, in which a group of strangers work together to uncover the traitors, sorry, werewolves, amongst them, was a breakout hit on Canal+ in France and has already been adapted for ARD’s online service in Germany.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • If Brian doesn't answer, he will be labeled a traitor.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Scar then proceeds to desolate the kingdom, with the help of hyenas, while Simba, in exile, grows up to become a pleasure-hunting, grub-eating sluggard.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019
  • Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017

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“Drop out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drop%20out. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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