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flunks

  • present tense form of flunk (3rd person singular).

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A driving examiner, she has the nickname “E-Z Pass,” because she never flunks an applicant.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 13, 2025

Gundy claimed that SORNA’s retroactivity provision flunks that test.

From Slate Jun. 20, 2019

If he flunks the test, he will not be alone in paying a price.

From The Guardian Dec. 10, 2018

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