dropped out
Example Sentences
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King defied expectations as a teenage mother who dropped out of school to gatecrash the predominantly white male music industry.
From BBC • 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
“Chad, the best time to have dropped out would have been a couple of weeks ago, but the second best time is right now.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
He dropped out of Harvard after his freshman year, enrolled at MIT and dropped out in 2010 after a few months to become the fourth employee at a payments-processing firm called /dev/payments, later renamed Stripe.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
Something dropped out of the shadow—something I couldn’t make out completely, but it looked like a flower with fuzzy white petals.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
