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Recent Examples of quitterTo me, that’s something that’s in your character to be a quitter.—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2025 And Braverman wasn’t a quitter, in fact, quite the opposite.—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025 Perhaps predictably, loud quitters can suffer consequences too.—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2025 Temporary By Hilary Leichter Quit, by Annie Duke No one likes a quitter, the saying goes.—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for quitter
Just an utter coward folding to this embarrassing paper tiger administration.
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Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Oct. 2025
We are told that politics is for cowards, literary analysis is for women, education is a system of liberal indoctrination, brave individuals must resist the herd.
That’s, at least, according to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has just warned Gen Z that college dropout success stories are too good to be true for most people.
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Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025
From a high school dropout and gang member who experienced homelessness to a PhD holder and founder of the Love Beyond Walls non-profit, Lester shares his journey navigating the trauma of poverty while exposing the systemic educational injustices that trap Black communities.
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
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.
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Michel Mejía,
Vogue,
15 Oct. 2025
Loafers / slip-on flats Transition into autumn with the perfect pair of loafers or slip-on flats.
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Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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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