foregoing

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You are foregoing any increases in the stock market over the term of the annuity — but also hedging your bets against a severe downturn in the market.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 9, 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

About 750,000 employees are currently foregoing their regular pay as the shutdown nears the end of its first week.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025

Still, this Emmys was defined by expediency – some of it in the comedic set-up of foregoing the usual play-off music.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2024

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