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Recent Examples of quitter
So maybe Miami’s best player and three-time captain is a quitter too.
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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
For another quitter, what would have been a straightforward business took a bizarre turn.
—Samra Zulfaqar, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
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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
For another quitter, what would have been a straightforward business took a bizarre turn.
—Samra Zulfaqar, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quitter
Noun
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There is no way a coward like Musk is in a position to accuse Sen. Kelly of being a traitor.—
DP Opinion,
The Denver Post,
11 Mar. 2025
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This is a cop novel that fully satisfies its genre expectations — chases, gun battles, sinister bad guys, questionable cops, cowards and heroes.—
Claude Peck,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Suddenly, the glossy, eminently bingeable legal drama — which centered around hotshot corporate attorney Harvey’s decision to hire brilliant college dropout Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) as his new associate, and the inevitable cover-up and fallout from their long con — got a new lease on life.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Apr. 2025
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The dropout would also have affected work at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, the group that works on severe weather research.—
Alejandra Borunda,
NPR,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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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.—
Kevin D. Williamson,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2021
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When did conservatives become such a miserable gaggle of public poltroons?—
Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
13 Apr. 2017
Noun
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Transfer to a plate, and loosely cover with foil to keep warm (temperature will continue to rise as chicken rests).—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
29 Apr. 2025
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But there’s also a tasty sea bass in prawn sauce with paria (an Andean cheese), and a yellow chicken stew.—
Jennifer Kester,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Heaton, 31, sported an oversized gray pinstriped suit with a matching suit vest, a black button-down shirt, and a pair of black leather loafers.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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The play’s piano-and-strings compositions, by Grant Olding, closely recall Nicholas Britell’s discordant TV soundtrack; Richard wears sumptuous suits and velvet loafers without socks, then goes to prison in comfy gray sweats, sporting quiet luxury to the end.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Meta is no slouch: Revenue growth: 22% in last 12 months Operating margin: 42% P/E Ratio: 21x That might look like a discount compared to Microsoft (31x) or Apple (32x), but here’s the rub.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Though, to be fair, Green Bay and Cincinnati are no slouches as third-place finishers.—
Parker Gabriel,
The Denver Post,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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“Quitter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quitter. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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