forget
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Those in the land they left behind would be forced to forget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
"Effectively, the designers were hoping the residents would not forget to close their windows," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Have a team, and don’t forget about your own needs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
One is that investors can be too quick to forgive and forget, focusing on the heady gains instead of reckless behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Does his assistant forget, or does Phineas forget to look?
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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No matter how big he becomes, he never forgets where he came from.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Olympic hockey team’s win over the Soviets in 1980—is a triumph tattooed on the national memory, though the memory frequently forgets that the game wasn’t shown until three hours after the puck dropped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
There’s a great accidental gag in a cut bit from the original MTV pilot when a deputy pulls up to arrest Knoxville and forgets to put her car in park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
"The system forgets you; that is the beauty of it," says Anadol.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
“And then you'll see how quickly he forgets his big brother.”
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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Item, cross-garters of scarlet—how’s that?” quoth Ned, scratching his forehead with a pencil: “I must have forgat the price o’ them.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
From Parish Papers by Macleod, Norman
But when Richard Cameron began to speak, I easily forgat everything else.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Nor then forgat brave Sthenelus his charge Received from Diomede, but his own steeds Detaining distant from the boisterous war,370 Stretch'd tight the reins, and hook'd them fast behind.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
Only I forgat to make mention of Aunt Joyce.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
Rather, it plays like the 84th episode of a time-killing cable series that people forgot was still on the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
He makes it his personal mission that no one gets a parking ticket for street cleaning on our block, going up and down the block twice a week to remind anyone who forgot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"They can't be shoved to the back and forgot about. We'll do everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen."
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Jack Ma forgot that, briefly, in October 2020, when at a financial regulators’ summit he said the Chinese banking system operated like a pawnshop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Part of me is surprised I was so invested in babysitting that I forgot the massive raincloud hovering over my family.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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“Silence” refers to the long period during which part of the fossil lay forgotten, while “leg” refers to the type of preserved material, consisting mainly of limb bones.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
For many of those who know Belfast, one of the most striking aspects of the Fleadh was the transformation of previously forgotten spaces.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Kusman, 86, has dedicated his life to the fortress of Cavustepe in eastern Turkey, and to learning the language of the vanished kingdom of Urartu, to honour its forgotten gods and rulers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
His name is destined to become a rude punchline or be completely forgotten.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
“And I’d forgotten what a bad boy Buddy Peevey was,” my aunt added.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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The family started noticing Stiles was forgetting things and asking the same question several times in his late 50s and early 60s.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
But giving this absolute unit a wide berth has become more challenging as his viral fame grows, because humans keep crowding Neil, getting dangerously close and perhaps forgetting that he is a wild animal.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Setting and forgetting your student-loan payments could soon give you a big discount.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
“Your brain starts forgetting if it’s part of the score or if it’s actually happening in the reality of the show,” Romer says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Mom is forgetting that Deb and I have only been sort of friends since third grade.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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