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Recent Examples of quitterNow the Dolphins were being called quitters and tankers -- players who had given up on their coaches, their season and themselves.—Miami Herald,
26 Oct. 2025 But Salah, who travelled several hours a day just to reach training as a youngster, is no quitter.—
Conor O'Neill,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025 Alas, the thing about being a true fan is, no quitters allowed.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025 And the most unattractive thing in the world to me is a quitter.—EW.com,
30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for quitter
Fishback showed up at a Donalds campaign event in Lake City on Saturday with a bunch of supporters, shouting through a bullhorn that Donalds was a coward for not debating him and telling him to go back to New York, a reference to Donalds’ childhood in Brooklyn.
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Jeffrey Schweers,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 June 2026
Emily was already the guiltiest college dropout in all of Western Canada.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
26 June 2026
Conn portrayed beauty-school dropout Frenchy in the film, the cast of which also included stars such as Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta, Stockard Channing and Jeff Conaway.
Frank was trying to set realistic expectations for the season, but made comments that were interpreted as defeatist.
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Jay Harris,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
Hegseth largely declined to provide specifics, instead denouncing critics as defeatists, questioning their patriotism and insisting the mission had broad public support.
Scar then proceeds to desolate the kingdom, with the help of hyenas, while Simba, in exile, grows up to become a pleasure-hunting, grub-eating sluggard.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
19 July 2019
Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2017