- present participle of forget.
forgetting
Example Sentences
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He went on to establish a Hollywood career, starring in films including Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him To The Greek.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
Forgetting how the extinguisher worked, she handed it to me.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
Ms. Smith is the author of “Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families and the Search for a Cure.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Forgetting to declare a bag of frog embryos to customs agents at the airport, work materials for her research at Harvard University.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2025
Forgetting thirty-nine generations of Confucian breeding, Shirley hugged anyone in reach.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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