Nothing went well in high school, so he dropped out.

He [Bill Gates] dropped out of a better school than I dropped out of.

After all this time, the little girl who watched her father get beheaded, who was captured and impressed as her enemy’s servant, who was captured again and taken to the site of her family’s massacre, who enrolled at assassin school, who went blind, who dropped out to pursue vengeance, the woman who endured all that by focusing on her hit list can be swayed from her course by the prospect of her family and her home.

I can't make phone calls because the line keeps dropping out.

Drop out

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