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
Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and billionaire Stephen Cloobeck among them — dropped out or pivoted to other races.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Did he just have a brain fart and forget that Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of the primary?
From Slate • May 30, 2026
He dropped out before he got to Virginia, so we never did see him.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
