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noun

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Recent Examples of drop out
Verb
His father was a carpenter with a roofing business who dropped out of 8th grade to pick cotton with his grandfather, Mackie said at Morehouse College last month. Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2025 San Francisco Pride organizers confirmed to Forbes four companies that dropped out of supporting its celebrations this year, and according to SFGate, the loss of sponsorships represents $300,000 in funding—slightly less than a tenth of the $3.2 million budgeted for SF Pride’s June events. Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
In one archive clip, then up-and-coming comedian Woody Allen asks the high school dropout Twiggy to name her favorite philosopher. Samantha Conti, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025 Put differently, intelligent onboarding can enable financial service providers to reach thin-file and difficult-to-identify demographics while reducing dropout rates. James Bruni, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drop out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drop out
Verb
  • Outreach workers who live among farmworkers are withdrawing a little, too.
    Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Artificial intelligence and digital surveillance systems are perhaps less likely to identify who is eating alone at lunch or withdrawing from friends.
    Jackie Valley, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Among the factors: ESOPs outperform non-ESOPs in job retention, pay, and workplace health safety and lower voluntary worker quit rates.
    Mary Josephs, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • And the fact that players haven’t quit is an encouraging sign.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • To 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
Noun
  • One snap shows the Live with Kelly and Mark host sans clothing save for a dark trench coat, knee-high socks and a pair of loafers.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The woven design of the fabric is an elevated upgrade to the classic pique polo in your closet to wear under an unstructured blazer with a matching pants, classic indigo jeans or even khaki shorts with a stellar pair of loafers to complete the look.
    Adam Mansuroglu, Footwear News, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Though, to be fair, Green Bay and Cincinnati are no slouches as third-place finishers.
    Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Questioning Tulsi Gabbard about her appointment as the director of National Intelligence, Republican senators begged her to agree with them that Edward Snowden was a traitor for leaking sensitive documents and then fleeing to Moscow.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Continue reading … 'CLOSER TO RUSSIA' – Dem fires back after Elon Musk doubles down on 'traitor' accusation.
    FOXNews.com, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 22 Apr. 2025.

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