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forego

[fawr-goh, fohr-] / fɔrˈgoʊ, foʊr- /


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But that’s not all: You would also forego anywhere from $30,000 to $50,000 in lost returns over the next 10 years, depending on how well the stock market performs over that period.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026

To the state they cited frequent turnover in adjusters and demands to sign legal papers agreeing to forego future reimbursement for personal items without itemized receipts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 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

It’s remarkable how much future benefit people will forego for a little instant gratification.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Perhaps, I thought, I should forego the nonsense of rhyme.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

That ultimately led to Sorsby foregoing his final college season with the intention of entering the NFL’s supplemental draft this summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 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

He was no doubt prepared for any emergency, ready for any one of uie foregoing attitudes, just as he bent himself easily and naturally to the situation which confronted him.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Adams made high-degree-of-difficulty catches look elementary, like foregone conclusions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

By the time decision day came around, it was a foregone conclusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

But Miller’s refusal to bow out wasn’t a foregone conclusion, either.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

If that makes the outcome seem like a foregone conclusion, it ain’t necessarily so, thanks to Labour’s laborious internal democratic process.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

It was a foregone conclusion that Washington would be called out of retirement to head the force, but equally predictable that the aging general would delegate actual command to his former aide-de-camp.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

“Watchmen’s” Damon Lindelof, who won along with Cord Jefferson for writing for a limited series, also forewent the traditional award night tuxedo for a “Remember Tulsa ‘21” T-shirt and blazer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 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

I earned them and forewent higher-paying attorney jobs in the private sector.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2010

Commerce for the time forewent its eminence, the soldier stepped to the front.

From Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy



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