Example Sentences

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Highly competent prosecutors have flunked their Brady obligations in far less complicated situations than this.

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2023

Yet would SVB necessarily have flunked a stress test?

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2023

In a span of nine days, the Kings have flunked miserably, against the Vancouver Canucks and Nashville Predators, and they know that final exams are right around the corner.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2018

But the betting markets have flunked their recent tests.

From Economist • Jun. 15, 2017

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 Lowell, Orson