as in to withdraw
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as in idler
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as in leaver
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Recent Examples of drop out
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
Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Black dropouts typically have an unemployment rate twice that of white dropouts.
—Algernon Austin, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
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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
Expect dropouts: Rejig pairings and match those who’ve lost their coach or coachee
Start small, then scale: Start with a smaller group with a pure coaching approach that has no particular focus.
—Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Black dropouts typically have an unemployment rate twice that of white dropouts.
—Algernon Austin, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drop out
Verb
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The annual auto auction in Canada confirmed Tesla received multiple opportunities to voluntarily withdraw from the event due to safety concerns.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
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On January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom formally withdrew from the European Union.—
Michael Walker,
The Athletic,
20 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
Verb
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If approved, the bill would get rid of the restriction on striking workers from receiving SNAP and also protect public sector workers who are fired from being considered to have voluntarily quit.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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The basketball world may have given up on the Suns, one of the NBA’s most disappointing teams, months ago, but aside from a blowout loss to the defending-champion Boston Celtics on Wednesday, Phoenix isn’t quitting on itself, in part because this has become Booker’s team to run.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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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Perhaps predictably, loud quitters can suffer consequences too.—
Ashton Jackson,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Dress it up with trousers and loafers, or go for a casual look with blue jeans and sneakers.—
Isabel Garcia,
People.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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Layer with a crisp button-down, and complete the look with classic loafers or pointed-toe heels.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Essence,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Following a parade of models who walked in an array of floral prints, slouch pants and tulle micro-skirts, Musk's mother Maye closed out the show.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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This doesn’t mean Nissan’s driverless car is a slouch.—
Carlton Reid,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There are people in the government who qualify for the term traitor.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
18 Mar. 2025
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Clearly, curator Samantha Johnston, who also happens to be CPAC’s executive director, is playing the traitor here by engaging with artists whose main tools are prompts, entered into programs, which generate images based on billions of data sets stored digitally around the globe.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
The Denver Post,
17 Mar. 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
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“Drop out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drop%20out. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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