flunk
Example Sentences
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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
This other teacher is going to flunk me.
From Scientific American • Oct. 13, 2022
Most notably, he did away with the Fed's power to flunk banks based on "qualitative" rather than quantitative grounds.
From Reuters • Jan. 5, 2022
In her first year at college, as she studied to be a nuclear engineer, her depression led her to flunk out and return home, too crippled to get out of bed.
From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2021
"I didn't exactly flunk out or anything. I just quit, sort of."
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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