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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 Imagine how much value creation is left on the table when summing the contributions from so many uninspiring efforts.
Combating a Quitters' Day Culture
Undoubtedly, leaders strongly influence whether a quitter's day culture emerges.—Nate Bennett, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quitter
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.
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Robert Rubsam,
Vulture,
18 Sep. 2025
Punk then made his entrance to confront Lynch, calling Rollins a coward for hiding behind his wife.
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
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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