quit
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Since my longtime therapist’s behavioral approach had already helped rein in my personality enough to quit smoking and drinking, and marry a great guy, I decided to try his suggestion.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Some quit, like Daniel Kokotajlo, an OpenAI safety researcher who left in 2024, saying he lost confidence the company would behave responsibly as the technology progressed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Cooper spoke to his supervisor at the time, Lee Challenger, 42, and the two men quit their jobs and started New Homes Quality Control.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Dozens of agents and prosecutors quit amid the department’s destruction, including the career attorney assigned to Kao’s case.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
"Mr. Johnson," she said, "I think Buttons doesn't like hay. If you want Buttons to quit running away, all you have to do is change the kind of food you give him."
From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene
It’s also interesting since a source alerted me to the fact that Rocket’s first commit happened just after Sequoia quitted of their CoreOS shares and board seat.
From Forbes ● Dec. 3, 2014
There is a strongly private, autobiographical element in Hodgkin's work; it refers to friendships one does not know about, to conversations in rooms long since quitted.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dictator thanked the King for attending the opening so soon after his arrival from a visit to Morocco, and immediately quitted the building.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, with his handsome features wreathed in the smile of one handsomely forgiven, he quitted the Vatican, was smartly saluted by the Papal Guard.
From Time Magazine Archive
—And Emma distinctly heard him add, in a lower tone, before he quitted the room,—“I have been as good as my word. She has not the least idea.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
With jobs hard to find, fewer people are quitting for fear they might not find another one.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Last week, those concerns spilled into the mainstream after the dramatic quitting of Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI researcher who had gone to Anthropic earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But Finneas -- a performer also famous for work with his superstar sister Billie Eilish -- Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, and Lukas Graham of Denmark all posted they were quitting Sheeran's "Loop Tour."
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
She got her chance in 1997 after quitting her role as builder's apprentice Beth Brennan in Aussie soap Neighbours.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
My gaze leaped from bleary note to blotted slur, none yielding music, none quitting me of clamor.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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