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Recent Examples of quitter
Since her comeback post-Tokyo, Biles has spoken openly about the trolls who call her a quitter.
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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
Cai explained that introducing UI for quitters raises welfare in the economy by up to 1.5 percent.
—Oshan Jarow, Vox, 26 June 2024
Biden was never a quitter, from his days as a child with a bad stutter and a family with uncertain income.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 22 July 2024
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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
Cai explained that introducing UI for quitters raises welfare in the economy by up to 1.5 percent.
—Oshan Jarow, Vox, 26 June 2024
Biden was never a quitter, from his days as a child with a bad stutter and a family with uncertain income.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 22 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quitter
Noun
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The employees are spoiled and the investors are cowards.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, Democrats — who are usually cowards when the subject is race — are afraid to defend DEI.—
Ruben Navarrette,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Gary has eight charter schools, two of which operate as dropout recovery schools.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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The author’s Uncle Paul was a Stanford dropout who invested in startups, retired at 45 and also helped her through college with a gift of Nokia stock plus precise advice about when to sell it.—
Alexandra Jacobs,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 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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Out of 67 billion chicken eggs laid in the United States the year before, 32 were sent into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2025
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Customers were 'like family' Frontier Airlines launches nonstop service from CT airport with fares as low as $49 Popular fast food chicken chain applies for permit to open another location in CT Winter storm watch issued for parts of CT.—
Mark Maglio,
Hartford Courant,
15 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Keep scrolling to shop more roomy tote bags, in-between season sweaters, comfortable jeans, and stylish loafers inspired by Jennifer Garner.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
People.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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The man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare chief executive officer Brian Thompson wore a dark green knit sweater, khaki pants and brown loafers to the courtroom — a look that soon went viral.—
Renan Botelho,
WWD,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Kansas City defense is no slouch either, and Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has struggled at times when pressured.—
NPR Staff,
NPR,
9 Feb. 2025
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Tunguska was less dramatic, but was no slouch in terms of damage.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 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 Mar. 2025.
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