flunk
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The difference between dropping the SAT and dropping the civil service examination is that incompetent students flunk out in a year or so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
It’s saying, “Oh, yay, I get to flunk another math test this week,” when what you mean is that you are freaked out about your consistently terrible grades in math class.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2024
If you flunk three times, as Moon did before passing on her fourth try, you have to pay another $41 fee to start a new round of test-taking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2023
This other teacher is going to flunk me.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 13, 2022
“Did he really flunk out?” my father asked.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
It was a loving and dutiful decision — the kind that flunks the test for American success.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2022
She hands María a notebook, which the girl spends so much time writing in that she flunks second grade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
Jack plays her love interest, beating Rock Hudson, who flunks his screen test by mixing up his lines.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2020
Gundy claimed that SORNA’s retroactivity provision flunks that test.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2019
“Well,” I said, “that’s only until he flunks out of community college and comes right back!”
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
In 2023, OpenAI’s top model breezed through the grade-school math exam that previous machines had flunked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Turns out I hadn’t flunked technology after all.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Masse’s professors would have flunked him if he used artificial intelligence for designs and images, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
He has been anonymous in his games so far and, if this was his big moment to announce himself, he flunked the test.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
Owing to his limited vocabulary, he twice flunked the written driver’s license test.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
The freshman and sophomore years were tough, with some core courses flunking or dropping almost half the students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
On each corner of 23rd Avenue and Jefferson Street, including by the Ezell’s Famous Chicken, protesters carried signs reading “Shots Fired, We’re Tired,” or “report cards” grading Seattle Public Schools as flunking on safety.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
By any measure of Saturday’s debacle, he is flunking that test.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
After flunking out of the University of Florida in 1966, Mr. Pride enlisted in the Army, learned Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., and was deployed to West Germany.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
“Well, you could be happy you’re not in school flunking your English test,” Alex said.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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