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Recent Examples of quitter
Perhaps predictably, loud quitters can suffer consequences too.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quitter
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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.—
Zaakir Tameez
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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Because these cowards fear being doxed for their inhumane and unconscionable actions.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2025
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The book examines his father’s experiences as a college dropout who impulsively enlisted in the Air Force and gets shipped overseas to Vietnam – and the long years of pain and PTSD that followed.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
27 June 2025
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Falling returns There has also been a proliferation of for-profit schools that offer less great education, and more college dropouts.—
Allison Schrager,
Mercury News,
14 June 2025
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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
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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
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Key Facts The Snack Wrap, which features a chicken tender, lettuce, cheese and ranch dressing in a small flour tortilla, returned to McDonald’s franchises nationwide Thursday, nearly a decade after leaving the nationwide menu in 2016.—
Derek Saul,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The Trump administration has sued California over its animal cruelty laws, saying the state's regulation of chicken farms has led to high egg prices across the country.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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Suede loafers and a paracord bracelet add balance to keep things interesting and fashion-forward.—
Christina Holevas,
Vogue,
5 July 2025
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The silence is delightfully interrupted by three older men dressed in loafers and Hawaiian shirts conversing animatedly in Greek over a half-empty box of almond cookies.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
2 July 2025
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The average household income is no slouch, being $234,386 per year.—
Andrew DePietro,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Dell Curry was no slouch, averaging 11.7 points and earning $19.8 million over a 16-year NBA career that ended in 2002.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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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 14 Jul. 2025.
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