forewent

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While Hopkins and many of her generation forewent having children, she notes that women today show up for job interviews pregnant, take family leave and still get tenure.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

The former Rainier Beach star played at Yakima Valley College after graduating high school, but forewent a Division I career due to eligibility concerns and eventually joined the G League.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2022

Because of social distancing, the family forewent the normal rituals of grieving, including the Jewish tradition of sitting shiva.

From New York Times • May 4, 2020

I’d read birth stories, for instance, from women who forewent the epidural and bragged that their children were consequently “so aware” and scored “perfect 10′s” on the Apgar.

From Salon • May 7, 2013

At a thoughtless age allured   By every gilded folly, we renounced   His sheltering side, and wilfully forewent   That converse which we now in vain regret.

From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William