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Quit
Quit verb - To give up (a job or office).
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Both words in one sentence
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Constant hazing, sabotaging trainees equipment until they get the idea to post guards, shooting at them, running through explosives, keeping them awake, or forcing those who are slow to exercise until they either collapse or quit.
Source: Useful Notes / Navy Seals - If everyone just up and quit to follow their pipe dreams the economy would collapse and there sure as hell would be no room left in the art world for a hack like Gavin.
Source: Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped -
Hence, the song "Kyle Quit The Band." ("But now we're back toge-e-ether, uh") Watch the World Die: "City Hall", they talk about watching the collapse of civilization from an underground bunker.
Source: Music / Tenacious D
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Quit and Collapse. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/collapse/quit
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