forsake

Everything clicked for the Beatles after the well-tailored Epstein convinced his wards to forsake Hamburg leather for matching suits in 1962.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Even after its massive expenditures, Microsoft recently said its cloud-computing capacity was so constrained that it had to forsake external cloud sales to run its own operations.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

I can never forsake undocumented immigrants because of all of you, public opinion be damned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

Adult men should survive without requiring women to forsake our own goals and desires in order to serve them.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2024

But in Moria the burden of Gandalf had been laid on him; and he knew that he could not now forsake the Ring, if Frodo refused in the end to go with Boromir.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

A dapper dresser, he forsakes his closet for T-shirts and baggy jeans.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

Communion’s corn chowder forsakes the usual restaurant goal of consistency in favor of homestyle evolution.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2021

“Coppelia” Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet performs the classic comedic fable about a young man who forsakes his lady-love for a mad doctor’s life-size dancing doll.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2020

Director X’s “Superfly” transplants the 1972 Blaxploitation classic from Harlem streets to suburban Atlanta mansions, flips Curtis Mayfield’s soul score for Future’s hip-hop soundtrack and forsakes the original’s politically charged grit for shallow music-video indulgence.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2018

There was a dignity to her grief and an acceptance of the fait accompli—the fatalism that the pilot’s wife must beget whenever her mate forsakes her for his aircraft.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

I was part of that generation of Latinos who forsook the Republican Party.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

As a young college graduate, Mr. Whitworth forsook a promising career as a jazz trumpeter to do a different kind of improvisation as a journalist.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

Later, he forsook arts cinema to become a highly bankable commercial actor, as at home in comedy as in drama.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2021

“American spray paint companies basically forsook graffiti in the ’90s,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2020

And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

It’s a fleeting tableau, but it reveals the whole story: even the most forsaken creation reaches for connection the moment he’s given something warm to hold in his hands.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025

He goes on to say they were "looking forward to a day scampering" and made the decision to leave their packs because they spent two days "lugging them up this God forsaken valley".

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025

In coming to America years earlier, he had forsaken his birthright: As the oldest son of five children, he was in line to inherit the pachinko business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

Henley’s current lawyer, Dan Petrocelli, said in an emailed statement that the attorney-client privilege that had previously shielded some of the communications “is a foundational guardrail in our justice system” that should rarely be forsaken.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

“We’re never going to get picked up,” Katz announced despondently after cars had forsaken us for fifteen minutes.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

So why would Walter consider forsaking some of those substantial financial resources?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026

"I think Cam is a one-major guy if you go to LIV because you are forsaking your competitiveness for money," Clayton told me in 2023.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

Even more than an internal feeling, truly great art produces new conversations, and this one about how to create without forsaking yourself in the process is only just beginning.

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025

Even so, losing her voice didn’t mean forsaking her songwriting, a talent that led to a resourceful strategy for a comeback.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

“We are not forsaking you, mama,” Andrew said.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya