forgive
Example Sentences
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You can be forgiven for thinking that after lagging by 8.5% per year for five years, the asset class Fund B tracks isn’t worth owning.
From MarketWatch
“Of course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book,” Harry later told the BBC.
"Americans visiting Singapore can be forgiven for wistfully wondering why our own cities don't seem so well-managed," he wrote in his book Triumph of the City.
From BBC
Defectors have been promised amnesty, but the Revolutionary Guards know Iranians will have difficulty forgiving them.
German nationalists have never fully forgiven America for World War II. Nor for the cultural competition, from hamburgers’ supplanting bratwurst to the omnipresence of American films and music.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
