forget
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Perhaps if viewers don’t see Pitt as much, they’ll forget the allegations and embrace him once more as a movie star.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 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
It is also easy to forget Jacks began the year in England's Test side, as their spinning all-rounder during the Ashes - a role now filled by Dan Lawrence.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Something I could use to forget about the mess of the last few hours.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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
No matter how big he becomes, he never forgets where he came from.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 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
“Be they Harvard or something else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.”
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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"And ye hev forgat yer sacred office to call me nicknames," answered Matthew, nothing abashed.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
Yet he forgat not, father as he was Of these, his absent eldest, whom he mourn’d 30 Ceaseless, and thus his speech, weeping, began.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
But the blood cried against them from the ground, and the Gods forgat them not.
From Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred John Church
But both pope & prince forgat in the meane while, that Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non excoriare.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
From Parish Papers by Norman Macleod
“One thing she never forgot was the cafe,” De Carmo said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Rolison’s case is one of inertia; he most likely forgot about his beneficiary designation entirely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
"Then I kind of forgot about it until I got the email through and I had to check it was real so many times because I was like 'surely not'."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
James finds the gas on in the kitchen, although Lou insists she turned it off, and tension simmers between them when James suggests that maybe she forgot because of her medication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“I’m okay, thanks. So, um… I forgot to tell you guys something,” I begin.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Chae, the defector, said her hope was that the North's isolated people are not one day simply forgotten by the outside world.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Yet she was largely forgotten after her death in 1973 before being rediscovered decades later.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
That display, like the best at Independent 20th Century, offers discoveries that shouldn’t end with the fair, but serve as new beginnings for overlooked and forgotten artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
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
Laughter was a forgotten thing, as though their joy had been drowned along with their homes.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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But which things are normal forgetting, associated with aging, and which things are signs of trouble?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
As memory scholar Paul Connerton has argued, some forms of forgetting are not failures but necessary parts of social life.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
“She knows she has it. She knows she’s forgetting things. And this trip was an opportunity to not let the Alzheimer’s matter anymore.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
Some large creature had been on the island, perhaps picnicking, and had gone away forgetting the book and the watch.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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