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forget

[fer-get] / fərˈgɛt /




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As one resident of Braunau am Inn told me, it was a delicate balance between how much to remember and how much to forget.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Lying there, watching a movie with the fan running while drinking tea, Vlasenko could almost forget what was happening around him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

“Never mind, forget everything I just said. Say everything you want to say, toot your own horn. They love you.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Mr. Ippolito, who played Al Pacino in the miniseries “The Offer” in 2022, is so beguiling as Stallone that after a few scenes you just forget that this is a performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

But he told me I didn’t know him at all anymore and should forget I ever had.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Here’s the thing about spending a month off-grid and overseas: Your body forgets how it feels to exist in America every day.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

It seems likely that with each passing year, humanity collectively forgets more of its cultural heritage than it manages to learn anew.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

I say out loud as my Noise forgets itself and all there is in the universe is my legs moving.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

She well-nigh forgat that God might have some better thing in store for her, to the which He was leading her all the time, along this weary road.

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt

To say Wat were last, howbeit, I writ not well, for I forgat Mynheer, and Cousin Bess, the which I should not.

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

There I lay down and went to sleep before long, but deemed I heard no little talk going on betwixt Anna and the guest ere I forgat it all.

From The Sundering Flood by May Morris

I maist forgat my dedication; But when divinity comes cross me My readers still are sure to lose me.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

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 Emily Sarah Holt

I guess Rob Pelinka and JJ Redick forgot that LeBron James is no longer with the Lakers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

If you forgot the hard copies, you can find the code online.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

It’s possible that they forgot prior generosity and focused on your “sorry, no.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

A Welsh actress named in a prestigious line-up that has previously featured the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch and Florence Pugh says the selection was "so unexpected" that she forgot she applied.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Chip evidently forgot that he was too stressed out to look.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

But that doesn’t mean they are entirely forgotten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

“We’ve really forgotten that, as human beings, we are wired to ground ourselves through our connection to other people,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

I sat with her during her final two weeks, and I don’t think he’s forgotten that.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

I once heard a piece of advice about eating more vegetables that I’ve never forgotten, although I wish I could remember who said it: Find the vegetables you can add to a meal almost automatically.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

I was almost positive I remembered everything it had said, but what if I’d forgotten something?

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Meanwhile, the misgivings that both Padam Singh and Heera Devi say they initially had about stepping in front of the camera and forgetting their lines are gone now.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

"I am slowly forgetting all the tricks," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 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

His wife, through her terror and horror and distress, saw some sure danger to him: instantly forgetting her own grief, she seized hold of him and cried out:—

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker


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