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The best encounters with novels, Ms. Kanakia suggests, are those that forego line-by-line analysis or politically motivated allegory in favor of facing a reality that language can never fully contain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The Wall Street Journal reported External link over the weekend that SpaceX would forego a Mars mission in 2026, focusing on the moon instead.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

“Alternatively, noncitizens may choose not to appear and instead to forego their opportunity to pursue their claims for asylum or other relief from removal.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025

Medical exemptions are also easier to police, since states can require licensed doctors to explain why each child has a legitimate need to forego vaccination.

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025

Happily Van Helsing has not summoned me, so I need not forego my sleep; to-night I could not well do without it.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

It’s how budget carriers like Consumer Cellular can pass cost savings on to their customers by foregoing large-scale infrastructure buildouts.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026

The bigger issue is that investors who stuck with staples, foregoing bigger gains in hopes they would provide a smoother ride, have been sorely mistaken.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

He agreed with Secretary Vance that to oppose it “would be foregoing an option that we could exercise in the event a peaceful solution is not in the offing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

If his comedy can travel without him, if he can make money while foregoing lonely nights on the road, he can prioritize more important moments, like playing catch with his son after school.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2025

The foregoing should not be read as a call for movement building to the exclusion of reform work.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

France are favourites to win the World Cup, but these sides would definitely believe they could be beaten – and let's not forget this tournament has already proved there are no foregone conclusions.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

“I think endemicity is a foregone conclusion and measles will circulate at the level it did in the 1990s,” Adalja said.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

“This started as a foregone conclusion. It didn’t look that way as we went forward. So, for our basketball team, the fact we didn’t give up makes it special. We fought.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

What we know now—that the ground phase of the Gulf War proved a 100-hour testament to American martial prowess—was no foregone conclusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

The castle with its towers and battlements looms below them like some misty vision of foregone glory.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

In his Halloween paso doble showcase, he wore a clerical collar and forewent grease paint or creepy contacts, relying on wide-eyed expressions and a low-slung layer of fake fog to hide his relatively clumsy footwork.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025

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

But last month, after Thiessen’s stepmother and father, who are in their 70s, came down with covid, Thiessen, his wife and their children, ages 7 and 9, forewent testing.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2022

But the Seahawks felt confident enough in Eskridge that they forewent their usual strategy of trading down for more picks.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2021

They who forewent us did leave room for us; and should we grieve to do the same to those who should come after us?

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull