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Images: Zuma Press/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly The Hamas attacks in Israel this month presented the world with a stark test of moral clarity that the leaders of India’s 200 million Muslims appear intent on flunking.
—Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
Riley is also flunking an offense where defending Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Caleb Williams seems disconnected and the play-calling seems just plain weird.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
The Florida governor has flunked the editorial page’s litmus test issues as fast as the state banned advanced placement exams.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
And, sure enough, painfully enough, Miller flunked, giving up three runs in the first inning and continuing to struggle before being removed with two out in the second.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
Next Opportunity — at Vikings: F Teacher would flunk any student picking them to beat the Yuma High Criminals.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
Advertisement Meanwhile, Cohen, in failing to prioritize the university’s overall mission ahead of her football coach’s insecurity, badly flunked her first test as USC’s athletic boss.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
John was an admittedly average high school student who managed to flunk algebra in ninth grade.
—Clay Risen, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
The Mountain Valley Pipeline is, to use the technical term for something that would comprehensively flunk any rational utilitarian analysis, a bad project.
—Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
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In a new report, Trainer gives his estimates showing that Tesla flunks on both criteria.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2023
Or, perhaps some schools will consider this to be an act of cheating that causes the student to get an automatic flunk.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
Facilities that ace their inspections are on track to get up to five stars, whereas those that flunk will struggle to get more than one or two stars.
—New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
However, all three flunk the smell test, and two of them fell by the wayside before the Legislature adjourned last week.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
Doesn’t Avis know some states (including Massachusetts) flunk vehicles with faulty wipers in safety inspections?
—Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2019
And some students in general courses may test poorly or don't do their homework and flunk tests, educators say.
—Diane Rado, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2017
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