forget
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How long should you set it and forget it when it comes to your retirement plan?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
"There's a myriad of accents in the UK and sometimes people forget there's so many sick accents around... I think it's so nice that we've got that representation," Morais added.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
And don’t forget: Lucas won the Nobel in 1995.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The real danger of automating our ordinary encounters isn’t that we’ll suddenly forget what human connection feels like.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Despite the hot, angry tears that blur my vision, the truth I’ve been avoiding for so long cuts deep, leaving a scar so I’ll never forget.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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"The experience was something one never forgets or can be equalled."
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
We need to restore that belief, before the generation we indulged forgets it forever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
I take a tapa of rabo de toro, a stewed tail so tender it forgets it was ever muscle.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
"The system forgets you; that is the beauty of it," says Anadol.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Be they Harvard or something else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.”
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Then by her kisses did she know he frowned, But close about him her fair arms she wound, Until for happiness he 'gan to smile, And in those arms forgat all else awhile.
From The Earthly Paradise A Poem by William Morris
Mistress Lewthwaite saith thou didst guess it to be one thou hadst known down in the shires, but she had forgat the name.”
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
Yet he forgat not, father as he was Of these, his absent eldest, whom he mourn’d 30 Ceaseless, and thus his speech, weeping, began.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
In the preterit some are likewise formed by a, as brake, spake, bare, share, sware, tare, ware, clave, gat, begat, forgat, and perhaps some others, but more rarely.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
But then ’gan he to talk of mine eyes, which he is ever a-praising, and after a while I forgat my disease.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
In preparing for the premiere of “860,” which runs until Jan. 3, Crystal recalled a brief moment where he forgot Reiner was gone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
A Welsh actress named in a prestigious line-up that has previously featured the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch and Florence Pugh says the selection was "so unexpected" that she forgot she applied.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Ms. Dunn’s underlying theme is that humans spent centuries groping in the dark for their position, built a system that ended that groping, and then forgot the dark was ever there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Rolison’s case is one of inertia; he most likely forgot about his beneficiary designation entirely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
And to look at it yet another way, he and I have had infinite conversations, all in my brain, from the moment I forgot the code.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Back in Pipinsried, Hurzeler's name is still revered - and he has not forgotten where his coaching journey began.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Her podcast “You Must Remember This,” about “the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century,” has spent 21 seasons diving into the intricacies of the movie industry, from lauded stars to undersung production designers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Early on, after Jeanie has forgotten to pick her up from school and Delia flounces upstairs, a guilty Jeanie begs Delia to come down and talk rather than bicker by text.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Together with later discoveries from the same region, the ancient snake is helping scientists reconstruct a largely forgotten world in which massive serpents occupied the tropical landscapes of India.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
With all the craziness going on, I’d almost forgotten to think about it.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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"I am slowly forgetting all the tricks," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
As memory scholar Paul Connerton has argued, some forms of forgetting are not failures but necessary parts of social life.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mr. Wade’s tour of folk music is designed to keep us from forgetting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Congress shouldn’t honor the first Roosevelt lesson by forgetting the second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Chase climbed up the bank, trying not to berate himself for failing to save the driver and forgetting the go bag.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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