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Recent Examples of quitter
Perhaps predictably, loud quitters can suffer consequences too.
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Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2025
Imagine how much value creation is left on the table when summing the contributions from so many uninspiring efforts.
Combating a Quitters' Day Culture
Undoubtedly, leaders strongly influence whether a quitter's day culture emerges.
—Nate Bennett, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
So maybe Miami’s best player and three-time captain is a quitter too.
—Tim Graham, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Europe and its growing pool of quitters The Great Resignation may have taken off in the U.S., but Europeans haven’t been spared.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 20 Nov. 2024
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Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2025
Imagine how much value creation is left on the table when summing the contributions from so many uninspiring efforts.
Combating a Quitters' Day Culture
Undoubtedly, leaders strongly influence whether a quitter's day culture emerges.
—Nate Bennett, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
So maybe Miami’s best player and three-time captain is a quitter too.
—Tim Graham, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Europe and its growing pool of quitters The Great Resignation may have taken off in the U.S., but Europeans haven’t been spared.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quitter
Noun
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Today’s Republican Party is a bunch of weak, spineless cowards who cower in obedient terror at Trump’s feet.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 July 2025
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Now, all of these cowards that were too scared to give us a chance [want to work with us] because there’s no risk involved anymore.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
2 July 2025
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An obvious limitation of the study was the high dropout rate (69%) due to the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on lung function testing.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 July 2025
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Kelly said extensive research has demonstrated that higher education funding leads to better test scores, lower high school dropout rates and higher college enrollment rates.—
Caleb McCullough,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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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.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
19 July 2019
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Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2017
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And there’s the awkward fact of Giuliani’s having failed, in spite of his most abject scheming, to manage to overturn the presidential election that Donald Trump lost to a wobbly poltroon on the edge of 80.—
Kevin D. Williamson,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2021
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When did conservatives become such a miserable gaggle of public poltroons?—
Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
13 Apr. 2017
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Players can complete each mission to unlock a food reward – last week's reward was a medium fry, this week's reward is a chocolate chunk cookie, and next week's reward is a 5-count of chicken nuggets.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
22 July 2025
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What's on the menu at Mendocino Farms Mendocino Farms' menu includes sandwiches, salads, soups and sides such as a chicken parm dip, Peruvian steak sandwich, Thai mango salad, basil pesto shells and Oaxacan potato salad.—
Endia Fontanez,
AZCentral.com,
22 July 2025
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These stylish loafers are the shoe that started my Vionic obsession.—
Rebecca Shinners,
Travel + Leisure,
11 July 2025
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Wear the pants with a chiffon blouse and kitten heels, or tuck a button-down shirt into the waistband and finish off the look with a stylish pair of loafers.—
Emily Weaver,
People.com,
10 July 2025
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And Scratch — a turntablist who has worked with Busta Rhymes, 50 Cent, LL Cool J and Q-Tip — is no slouch, either.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
17 July 2025
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This was no slouch finding his groove against a struggling offense.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 June 2025
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His discoveries promise to upset the gaming tables of every school of thought that wagers on new and untested art for idlers’ rewards: the love of novelty, the will to make or unmake reputations, the wish to be hip or au courant.—
Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
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Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.—
Gaby Keiderling,
Harper's BAZAAR,
19 Jan. 2023
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“Quitter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quitter. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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