flunks

verb

present tense third-person singular of flunk
as in fails
to be unsuccessful the movie flunks, both as entertainment and as a dramatization of a historical incident

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Recent Examples of flunks During the January oral arguments, a majority sounded ready to rule that the law flunks the historical tradition test. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 18 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flunks
  1. fails
  2. collapses
  3. flops
  4. misses
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  • When an operation fails, the cloud model examines multi-camera footage and sensor logs to identify what went wrong.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2026
  • If the board fails to select members by then, the state superintendent must select them himself.
    — Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of fails
Verb
  • Shunned by his own fans, spurned by the people who had previously cheered his every word, and ultimately left bellowing into the rafters of an echoing, empty mansion, Rhodes collapses into his own narcissistic madness.
    — Sasha Abramsky, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2026
  • This results in a very large star, which eventually collapses to become an intermediate-mass black hole.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of collapses
Verb
  • The importance of competition There are three specific reasons why vote buying usually flops.
    — Kenneth Greene, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026
  • In Bait, Ahmed stars as struggling actor Shah Latif, who flops in his audition to play James Bond and then becomes consumed by the quest to become the first Pakistani 007.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of flops
Verb
  • There were a lot of swings and misses trying to stop Sims on Saturday.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Three weeks later, two of those deals slip to next quarter, and the company misses its number.
    — Greg Genung, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of misses

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“Flunks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flunks. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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