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Recent Examples of drop out
Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 21 May 2025
Those presidents who enjoyed long lives and generally robust health after having to drop out of races (Truman) or facing reelection losses (Hoover, Ford, Carter, and Bush I) had plenty of time to regain stature.
—Barbara A. Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
In the spring of 1975, a college dropout and his childhood friend launched a tiny software company in Albuquerque with a singular mission: put a computer on every desk and in every home.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
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Verb
The diagnosis has done little to dampen talk about whether Biden, 82, should have dropped out of the 2024 presidential race earlier, and instead seems to have triggered more conversations, some of them launched by President Trump.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 21 May 2025
Those presidents who enjoyed long lives and generally robust health after having to drop out of races (Truman) or facing reelection losses (Hoover, Ford, Carter, and Bush I) had plenty of time to regain stature.
—Barbara A. Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Noun
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
In the spring of 1975, a college dropout and his childhood friend launched a tiny software company in Albuquerque with a singular mission: put a computer on every desk and in every home.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drop out
Verb
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Martin withdrew from consideration for the post that requires Senate confirmation and Trump named him to a Justice Department post instead.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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Fisher Scientific withdrew its full-year profit forecast while the medical equipment maker expects to take a $400 million hit in sales to China, as Trump’s tariffs would likely raise the cost of parts the company sources in China.—
Ty Roush,
Forbes.com,
19 May 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
Verb
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For example, quitting is one of the hardest moments to avoid tears.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Five years ago, the mother made a drastic choice to sell her house, quit her job, and embark on a global adventure, dismissing any concerns for the future of her financial security.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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To me, that’s something that’s in your character to be a quitter.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
22 Mar. 2025
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And Braverman wasn’t a quitter, in fact, quite the opposite.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Pair with effortless basics like a T-shirt, blazer, and loafer or boot.—
Kristina Rutkowski,
Glamour,
12 May 2025
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Leo was seen wearing simple black shoes — eschewing, as Francis did, the red loafers of the papacy preferred by some traditionalist popes.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2025
Noun
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The rest of the silicon is no slouch, with a speedy Core Ultra 9 processor coupled with 32GB of system memory.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
23 May 2025
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And Emily’s side of the family isn't much better, represented by her mean, bilious aunt (Allison Janney, herself no slouch in the hissing-authority department) and her boozy mother (Elizabeth Perkins, replacing Jean Smart from the first film).—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Stephen Fry, Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed and singer Paloma Faith are just three of the 19 celebs entering the castle to sniff out the traitors from the faithfuls in the first celebrity season of the smash hit on the BBC.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
13 May 2025
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The former sees the latter as a pro-European traitor and а success symbol born of the imperial decline that Soviet-era bureaucrats have yet to accept.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
12 May 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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“Drop out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drop%20out. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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