quit
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The councillors who have quit the Ashfield Independents are:
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
One of its nurses recently quit to become a nurse practitioner, offering cosmetic treatments that patients often pay for in cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
"For one, just his ability to follow through. I mean, what's going to happen? Will he stop halfway through or quit or something like that?"
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
“If I had seen that kind of quid pro quo, I would have quit earlier.”
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
I wished he would quit talking about my “operation” and its “phases.”
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
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
Amid delirious cheering, Signor Mussolini quitted the Capitol and strode toward his automobile.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even by 1782, as an admiring French visitor observed, Jefferson, "without having quitted his own country," had become "an American who...is a musician, draftsman, astronomer, natural philosopher, jurist and a statesman."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dictator thanked the King for attending the opening so soon after his arrival from a visit to Morocco, and immediately quitted the building.
From Time Magazine Archive
We quitted the scene, leaving behind us a toppled parlor on the dirt street, table flung with arms wide, clock facedown, chairs jumbled on the ground.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
I ended up quitting my job to stay home and care for him full time.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
And Bauers, the man who not long ago was on the verge of quitting the game entirely, might be the biggest reason why.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Prosecutors say Linton, 41, was furious with co-workers and thinking about quitting her job at Kaiser Permanente hospital in West L.A. when she drove down La Brea Avenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Last week, those concerns spilled into the mainstream after the dramatic quitting of Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI researcher who had gone to Anthropic earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Well, he was just going to have to get used to the idea, because Holly Short had no intention of quitting for him or anybody else.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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