dropped out
Example Sentences
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Despite what she describes as a turbulent journey through school, Amelie believes that without the flexibility to change path along the way she might have dropped out altogether.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
He dropped out of college, then returned, then left again, he said, ending up about 29 credits short of a bachelor’s degree.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
Discovery shareholders in April approved the sale of the company to Paramount after Netflix dropped out of the auction.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
After being accepted to a physics graduate degree programme at Stanford University, Musk quickly dropped out and founded two technology start-ups during the "dotcom boom" of the 1990s.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
School began to reveal itself, therefore, as a child’s game that one could not win, and boys dropped out of school and went to work.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
