flunk
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The difference between dropping the SAT and dropping the civil service examination is that incompetent students flunk out in a year or so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Her night terrors are causing her to flunk out of college, and her roommate demands that she go home and get some answers so that she can get some sleep.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025
It’s saying, “Oh, yay, I get to flunk another math test this week,” when what you mean is that you are freaked out about your consistently terrible grades in math class.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2024
This other teacher is going to flunk me.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 13, 2022
“Pull up your socks, Cordelia, or you’ll flunk your year again. You know what Daddy said last time.”
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
She hands María a notebook, which the girl spends so much time writing in that she flunks second grade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
She utilises Hassett on the right flank and something is building, but Bowen flunks an errant pass and it’s all over.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2021
Gundy claimed that SORNA’s retroactivity provision flunks that test.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2019
As a policy argument, Friedman’s thesis flunks key empirical tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2016
“We just saw this episode two weeks ago. Lashonda flunks home ec and gets caught lending Troy’s letter jacket to that college guy she’s been dating on the side.”
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
By her own account, the 85-year-old, originally from New York, "flunked" every art class she ever took, from elementary school to high school.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Masse’s professors would have flunked him if he used artificial intelligence for designs and images, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
The defending champion flunked her first run as world champion Atkin set the pace with 90.50.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
The Iranian-born executive who moved to the U.S. at the age of 9 and flunked out of school with just a 1.9 GPA before attending community college has been through worse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
My record shows that I flunked kindergarten and in first grade had no IQ—a zero IQ.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
The freshman and sophomore years were tough, with some core courses flunking or dropping almost half the students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
On each corner of 23rd Avenue and Jefferson Street, including by the Ezell’s Famous Chicken, protesters carried signs reading “Shots Fired, We’re Tired,” or “report cards” grading Seattle Public Schools as flunking on safety.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Finally, Riley is also flunking the important realm of public perception.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
He also described flunking his first chemistry exam as a first-year undergraduate student.
From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2023
It is all right with me if you flunk me though as I am flunking everything else except English anyway.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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