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Combating a Quitters' Day Culture
Undoubtedly, leaders strongly influence whether a quitter's day culture emerges.—Nate Bennett, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 So maybe Miami’s best player and three-time captain is a quitter too.—Tim Graham, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025 Europe and its growing pool of quitters The Great Resignation may have taken off in the U.S., but Europeans haven’t been spared.—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 20 Nov. 2024 Since her comeback post-Tokyo, Biles has spoken openly about the trolls who call her a quitter.—Dana O'Neil, The Athletic, 31 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for quitter
With rising apprehension, the Cabinet kept deliberating for a couple of days while Sumner did his best to shut down jingoistic rhetoric in the Senate from politicians who demanded that Lincoln not be a coward in the face of Great Britain.
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Zaakir Tameez
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
Because these cowards fear being doxed for their inhumane and unconscionable actions.
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.
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Ari Levy,
CNBC,
21 June 2025
This sudden change disrupted high-frequency radio signals, leading to communication dropouts for some radio operators across affected regions.
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.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
19 July 2019
Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2017
And there’s the awkward fact of Giuliani’s having failed, in spite of his most abject scheming, to manage to overturn the presidential election that Donald Trump lost to a wobbly poltroon on the edge of 80.
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Kevin D. Williamson,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2021
When did conservatives become such a miserable gaggle of public poltroons?
Diaz was no slouch, as many who remember him can attest.
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Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
But her opponents for the nomination are no slouches: Lyonne is a five-time nominee, including acting nods for Russian Doll, Orange Is the New Black, and, two years ago, the first season of Poker Face.
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.
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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.
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