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noun

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Recent Examples of drop out
Verb
Those concerns culminated with the announcement that Biden was dropping out of the presidential race in July 2024. Mackenzie Thomas, The Washington Examiner, 8 July 2025 One later dropped out during last-minute financial vetting the day before an ACIP meeting. ArsTechnica, 8 July 2025
Noun
High school dropouts earn significantly less over their lifetimes and are more likely to rely on public assistance. Valeria Gurr, Boston Herald, 2 June 2025 Sam Altman, a whiz kid from the suburbs of St. Louis and a Stanford dropout, became OpenAI’s public face. Erin Neil, New Yorker, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for drop out
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Verb
  • Topline Half of the roughly 4,000 National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles last month amid immigration raid protests will be withdrawn, the Trump administration announced Tuesday, calling off the soldiers weeks after California Gov. Gavin Newsom unsuccessfully tried to block their deployment.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Stanley said crews were initially able to fight the fire near a chlorine leak at a water treatment facility, but eventually had to withdraw due to safety concerns for pilots who could breathe toxic fumes.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 15 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
  • Money has also been spent on nongovernmental organization programs that hand out clean needles and crack pipes as part of progressive harm reduction policies instead of encouraging homeless drug users to quit.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 14 July 2025
  • Although the overall unemployment rate is just 4.1%, few people are quitting jobs today, and employers are skittish about hiring.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 13 July 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
  • These stylish loafers are the shoe that started my Vionic obsession.
    Rebecca Shinners, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2025
  • Wear the pants with a chiffon blouse and kitten heels, or tuck a button-down shirt into the waistband and finish off the look with a stylish pair of loafers.
    Emily Weaver, People.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • DaVinci Resolve Studio is no slouch for collaboration.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 9 June 2025
  • Haliburton is no slouch either — in fashion or basketball.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • His brother Jun-ho is still searching for the island and is unaware there’s a traitor in his group.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • 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
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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