dropped out

Example Sentences

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So some economists are starting to suspect that foreigners who dropped out of the U.S. workforce at the height of last year’s aggressive immigration enforcement are now coming back to work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

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

Discovery shareholders in April approved the sale of the company to Paramount after Netflix dropped out of the auction.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 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

We are on solid ground, but the bottom has just dropped out.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan