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
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
At MIT, meteorology majors who flunk Forecasting 101 are encouraged to switch to economics.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022
Lie-detection tests are notoriously inaccurate, and calculations similar to the above demonstrate why truthful people who flunk polygraph tests usually outnumber liars.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
A driving examiner, she has the nickname “E-Z Pass,” because she never flunks an applicant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
It was a loving and dutiful decision — the kind that flunks the test for American success.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2022
Jack plays her love interest, beating Rock Hudson, who flunks his screen test by mixing up his lines.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2020
The IRS revenue procedure flunks that standard too.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2018
“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
Turns out I hadn’t flunked technology after all.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Masse’s professors would have flunked him if he used artificial intelligence for designs and images, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Many readers flunked at least a few questions in the first quiz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
In the years following graduation, Jenner and Pratt would team up to produce “The Princes Of Malibu,” but only after Pratt, who was attending USC, almost flunked a course in business trigonometry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
“He flunked out, Mom. And you know as well as I do that General Whitehead is an idiot. Dad thinks he’s an idiot too.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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
First, he is flunking a defense that has been horribly mismanaged by his buddy Alex Grinch yet is continually supported by Riley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
After flunking out of the University of Florida in 1966, Mr. Pride enlisted in the Army, learned Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., and was deployed to West Germany.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
“I wish it was helping their grades, though. Half my seventh graders are flunking this semester.”
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
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