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forget

[fer-get] / fərˈgɛt /




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And, of course, let's not forget the pandas.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Be kind to others, by all means, but don’t forget to be kind to yourself.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Don’t forget that our other ports and businesses around the world are doing very well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

A few years ago, I received a call I’ll never forget.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I’ll forget all about that song, and we’ll only play heavy music.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

"He has no phone or wallet with him and probably forgets the name of the hotel," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

That is, until Tom forgets his jacket inside the bookstore.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

"The system forgets you; that is the beauty of it," says Anadol.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

I don’t know how somebody loses their way and forgets that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

“Your brain forgets how to produce it, so you have to teach it how to do it again. I read that in an article. Or something like that.”

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

And they both forgat the Sundering Flood, and how they should never meet, as they sat each side of the fearful water, and the tale and sweet speech sped to and fro betwixt them.

From The Sundering Flood by May Morris

Then by her kisses did she know he frowned, But close about him her fair arms she wound, Until for happiness he 'gan to smile, And in those arms forgat all else awhile.

From The Earthly Paradise A Poem by William Morris

To you! to you! all song of praise is due: Only for you the heaven forgat all measure.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

That concourse thrilled for joy: Alone that seven years' child retained the word: The rest forgat it.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere

“One thing she never forgot was the cafe,” De Carmo said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The title track opens the set with a patiently strummed acoustic guitar and Beck’s voice leading with “Yesterday / Paper roses they forgot to bloom.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Rolison’s case is one of inertia; he most likely forgot about his beneficiary designation entirely.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

"After coming back from injury I felt I lost the energy and I forgot how to compete," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

I know which of the seventh graders forgot to put on deodorant and which fifth grader forgot to eat breakfast.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

And, with the museum’s dim lighting, dated technology and underutilized areas, it can feel at times as if one is wandering in a past-its-prime shopping mall or in the forgotten corner of an airport terminal.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Those latter “second-round” effects have been largely forgotten about in recent decades because “most of those oil shocks in the last 40 years tended to be fairly short lived,” says Morgan Stanley economist Michael Gapen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

In the process, she discovered the forgotten digital detritus left on their hard drives: old resumes, photo albums, Word documents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

It's a line he now says was specifically intended to be a riposte to the other Charles' suggestion that she would quickly be forgotten: Diana "will never be extinguished from our minds".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

At last, almost reluctantly it seemed to me, she approved the cheese, but the hat was forgotten.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

For those of us who were alive in 2001, forgetting the day itself is almost impossible.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Mr. Wade’s tour of folk music is designed to keep us from forgetting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The results can be found today in professional locker rooms around the country, today’s stars never forgetting the 5-foot-4 bulldog who gave them their first headline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Whereas the poem ends with order restored, the film leaves history caught in an endless cycle of collapse, rebirth and forgetting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

But the very next minute he’s mumbling in Hebrew, humming that tuneless tune, and forgetting he’s got a friend who’s suffering.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman




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