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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

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

But so you’re aware: if you took $175,000 minimum out of your retirement accounts, assuming a 7% annual return, you forego $502,000 in compound earnings over the next 20 years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 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

When I think of foregoing a baby for a comedy career, I think: What career?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 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

I’m working up with the foregoing to a physical description of myself.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Game 1 illustrated that it’s more like a foregone conclusion.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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

Those triumphs were not exactly foregone conclusions given the travel sickness Howe's team previously suffered with.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 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

And by the spring of 1796 it had become a foregone conclusion that the choice was between them.

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

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

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

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

At this they rejoiced and repaired to the cavern at nightfall, whilst they forewent them, that he might fetch them the booty.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John