forget
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Sometimes people forget that we are human beings practicing this discipline, and we bring all our concerns for our community into this space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
"And just like with any miracle... you just can't forget about it, because it's simply impossible to forget," he added, gazing up at the Virgin.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
If you believe in the long-term growth of the United States, buy the S&P 500 and forget about it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
"Because it was our language. That half hour made us forget everything else."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
I need to forget everything just for one night.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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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
Forty-four years after the attack, he said, justice could finally be served: "Faced with anti-Semitism and terrorism, France never forgets and never gives up."
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Our favorite story is “The Princess Who Could Not Cry,” about a princess who is placed under an evil spell and forgets how to cry.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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"And I visit upon her the days of the Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and put on her ring and her ornament, and went after her lovers, and forgat Me, saith the Lord."
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
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 Morris, May
Joseph made a touching appeal to the Chief Butler: “yet did not the Chief Butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.”
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus
Kate forgat her leg, and Jack his mowes, and all we, stag and hunters alike, ran to the gallery window for to gaze.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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 Burns, Robert
The light-bodied red, Passeggiata, he explained, was a rosé gone wrong when winemakers forgot to remove the grapes’ skins at the correct time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
That will help you realize things like this faucet doesn’t get hot water or I forgot to put an ice cream scoop in the kitchen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
"They banned bringing them to the stadium and forgot that we carry them in our blood and our hearts."
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
We were so excited to assign blame for the Platner fiasco in the first few entries that we forgot to offer anything forward-looking.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026
It’s like the time Skye put socks on her Australian shepherd and the poor dog forgot how to walk normally.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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In our timeline, it got some pickup last week, but it’s already been largely forgotten.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
And such a massive contribution to conservation will never be forgotten.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Despite AI stocks taking the role that cryptocurrency has occupied in recent years—a high-risk source for exponential growth— cryptocurrency hasn’t been forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In a closing monologue, Odysseus looks ahead to the collapse of the Bronze Age, imagining a future in which his world and everything that happened to him will be forgotten.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
‘Mimi, I haven’t forgotten who we are,’ she said.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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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 queer clubs were never only about forgetting.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
"At times, especially in the first set, it looked like she wanted it so bad that she was almost forgetting to release into the shot."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Setting and forgetting your student-loan payments could soon give you a big discount.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Gingersnipes tensed too, forgetting she was invisible to everyone but Clare.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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