flunk
verb (used without object)
to fail in a course or examination.
have flunked
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present perfectof flunk.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Masse’s professors would have flunked him if he used artificial intelligence for designs and images, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Without music education, Jordan said, “I wouldn’t be here. I wouldn’t have the goals that I have. I maybe would have flunked out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
Highly competent prosecutors have flunked their Brady obligations in far less complicated situations than this.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2023
Thereby did a young 70-year-old man master what so many cranky 70-year-old men have flunked through time: the keenness to ponder a subsequent generation rather than just giving it a lazy lampooning.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2020
If it hadn't been for that, I'd have flunked right in the street—sure as you live.
From Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them by Orson Lowell
