quit
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Graham Platner has already quit the race to be the next senator from Maine, but defenses of the once-rising Democrat are only growing.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Upward of 70% of new sports officials quit within first their first three years, Topp says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
To be fair to Grim, Maine primary voters were with Platner, too, backing him by a wide enough margin that his main opponent, Gov. Janet Mills, quit before the July primary.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
The protesters say Pradhan must take moral responsibility for the leak and quit.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Denied the chance to manage money by his hedge fund employer, he quit and tried to start his own hedge fund.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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
Their Majesties quitted Paris at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a ludicrous trial, Kit is ac quitted to the great discomfiture of ogreish District Attorney Sprinkle Kit's companions in theft get a pardon from the governor.
From Time Magazine Archive
He being settled and falling swiftly into a shivering sleep, I quitted the chamber and repaired downstairs.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
So when she announced at the end of the third season that she was quitting the squad to focus on other goals in her life, fans were devastated.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
The 56-year-old is the only Labour member of parliament to have publicly said they are a candidate to succeed Starmer, who announced he was quitting last month.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
“I think that has to be really strong. That’s what brought me a lot of comfort when I felt like quitting: going back to the beginning and remembering why I started this.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The failed academy trials, the 5am starts to play non-league football, the thoughts of quitting the sport altogether.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Me: “Maxine has been on me about quitting things. She says I can’t just give up so easily. Especially on people.”
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
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