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noun

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Recent Examples of drop out
Verb
Candidates would be told to drop out, or maybe not to run in the first place. Andrew Yang, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025 Student Francisco Freeman talked to the board about having limited options and wanting to drop out after his arrest. Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
The amount of dropouts, acts of god — the movie was terrorized. Rachel Handler, Vulture, 17 May 2025 While Meta is gaining a 49% stake in the startup, Zuckerberg’s real prize in the deal was hiring Wang, a dropout from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who started his company at age 19. Ari Levy, CNBC, 21 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for drop out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drop out
Verb
  • Of course, the former two had retired whereas the latter had only temporarily withdrawn.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 4 July 2025
  • The result will be an increase in preying on immigrants by the criminal element: robbery, protection scams, sweatshop labor and human trafficking, as the immigrant community withdraws from reliance on no-longer-safe court systems.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 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
  • In April alone, 3.2 million Americans quit their jobs.
    Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • To say the quiet part out loud: many athletes have previously felt that choosing to have a child meant having to quit.
    L'Oréal Blackett, Refinery29, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Plus, find out what TJ hates more than anything in The Challenge world — even more than quitters!
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 1 July 2025
  • But there are more than enough prospective quitters to go around.
    Will Yakowicz, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Suede loafers and a paracord bracelet add balance to keep things interesting and fashion-forward.
    Christina Holevas, Vogue, 5 July 2025
  • The silence is delightfully interrupted by three older men dressed in loafers and Hawaiian shirts conversing animatedly in Greek over a half-empty box of almond cookies.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The average household income is no slouch, being $234,386 per year.
    Andrew DePietro, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Dell Curry was no slouch, averaging 11.7 points and earning $19.8 million over a 16-year NBA career that ended in 2002.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Young-il’s brother is still searching for the island — but a traitor on the boat is preventing the detective from reaching the game site.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, Jun-ho continues his search for the island on which the Squid Games are taking place - but there's a traitor amongst his team.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 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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