dropped out
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A group headed by former Yankees and Dodgers manager Joe Torre and L.A. developer Rick Caruso dropped out of the bidding ahead of Cohen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
You’re both from the Midwest, you both dropped out of college, and you both have built these political media empires.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
By the age of 24 he’d dropped out of engineering school to read philosophy and pursue modeling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
No-frills airline EasyJet has agreed to be taken over in a £5.7bn deal by US firm Apollo after a rival bidder dropped out.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
He dropped out of college and parked himself permanently by one of the windows of the flat, looking blankly out at the world.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
