forget
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“We will never forget the friendship and generosity of the United States,” she added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Everton: Despite a transfer window to forget, David Moyes has made the Toffees hard to beat.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
We obsess over Kobe as the standard when it comes to training, but people forget he was a human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
In excerpts published by the Daily Mail, the earl claimed King Charles III told him "we'll forget her soon enough", but Buckingham Palace said in a statement that fraternal grief could "colour memory".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Maggie had said it over and over so I’d never forget.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
"He has no phone or wallet with him and probably forgets the name of the hotel," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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
“And then you'll see how quickly he forgets his big brother.”
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
But the blood cried against them from the ground, and the Gods forgat them not.
From Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred John Church
She sat her by the nut-browne bride, And her een they wer sae clear, Lord Thomas he clean forgat the bride, Whan Fair Annet drew near.
From Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Frank Sidgwick
"And ye hev forgat yer sacred office to call me nicknames," answered Matthew, nothing abashed.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
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
Nor then forgat brave Sthenelus his charge Received from Diomede, but his own steeds Detaining distant from the boisterous war,370 Stretch'd tight the reins, and hook'd them fast behind.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
Nonetheless, many have wondered why these people are not being investigated or prosecuted, and whether Massie forgot to name some other prominent people.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
"After coming back from injury I felt I lost the energy and I forgot how to compete," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The thermostat had been set to 71 degrees Fahrenheit and a worker forgot to turn off the air-conditioning.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
James finds the gas on in the kitchen, although Lou insists she turned it off, and tension simmers between them when James suggests that maybe she forgot because of her medication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
He was about to tell her that the storm had ripped it away, when he turned .and forgot about the cape.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
And a nursing home of senior citizens belts out its fear of being forgotten after they die.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
By now you may have forgotten the actually fun thing that happened at the University of Texas at Austin Saturday: The football Longhorns charging back from a 23-3 fourth-quarter deficit to stun then-No.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Referring to the plot of the Home Alone films, he joked: "She may have forgotten me... twice! But we will always remember her."
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The discovery raises the possibility that other coral ecosystems along West Africa may have been overlooked, forgotten, or never documented in the first place.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Wait a minute,” I said, vaulting to my feet, my weak knees forgotten as my mind raced ahead.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
For those of us who were alive in 2001, forgetting the day itself is almost impossible.
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
Whereas the poem ends with order restored, the film leaves history caught in an endless cycle of collapse, rebirth and forgetting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master: I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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