forget
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"We love Diljit and have been to all his shows in the UK. This was something else, a moment in time we won't forget being a part of."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
She casts a spell that her daughters forget about magic and never practice again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
I will never forget the confusion, and then the sheer terror, of that day.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
We should never forget Sept. 11 and its victims, but America’s fever has to break.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The words slam into me, steal my breath, carve themselves into my brain so I don’t forget.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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"Just in case President Trump or anyone else forgets, we've set up this sign to remind them, it's Lake Ontario, now and forever," Ontario Premier Doug Ford said.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Its subject is Hannah Upp, a young teacher prey to dissociative fugue states in which she forgets her own identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
I take a tapa of rabo de toro, a stewed tail so tender it forgets it was ever muscle.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
"The system forgets you; that is the beauty of it," says Anadol.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
Sometimes Ray forgets to stay with his humans and goes off on unexpected adventures, leading to much worry.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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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 M. (Madelaine) Irwin
The words of the good father ended, new ioy surprised the heart of Iulietta, who was so attentiue to his talke as she forgat no one poynct of hir lesson.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
"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 Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
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 the blood cried against them from the ground, and the Gods forgat them not.
From Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred John Church
Rolison’s case is one of inertia; he most likely forgot about his beneficiary designation entirely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Allen met with Parton years ago and said she never forgot her roots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
He described her as a "global iconic superstar" who not only never forgot her roots, but was fiercely proud of them.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
This is my way of telling you I forgot to wear a collared shirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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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They have about them a sense of just-rightness—so that, once seen, they are not soon forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
While the country was knocked sideways by the Sept. 11 attacks, I was a closeted kid alone in a new city, and football did something for me that I have never forgotten.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
The noise around LSU grew so loud in recent days that you might have forgotten that the Tigers’ football team actually plays football.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Gasly is well liked within the paddock, and has many friends among the drivers, but he has long been one of F1's forgotten heroes, regardless of that win six years ago.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
He seemed to have forgotten me and my particular problem.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
"I have been lucky as a player. I have enjoyed happy moments, today is not such a moment. We must accept it without forgetting everything we experienced."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“When Bobby called asking me to play bass with the Wolf Bros, I thought at the very least, this is going to be a master class in losing self-consciousness and forgetting about fear,” Was said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
And as my family continues to focus on their own things, smoothly forgetting about the awkwardness over the elevator, I feel more and more like a lonely storm cloud.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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