forget
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In it, she said she would “never forget the love” she once felt for Bryan and insisted that she had never been interested in his “lifestyle or money.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Greene-Placentia told the Phoenix New Times she was "embarrassed" and "just wanted to forget", but felt compelled stand up for other victims.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Thank you for everything, we will never forget you," read a message on the candle, which accompanied flowers and a placard calling Abascal "the grandmother of an entire country".
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Let’s not forget that the #MeToo movement took off because of whisper networks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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
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
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
Her modest audience forgets their conversation and their dinner as they watch.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Truly, I forgat the same at that time; and now I have not the money to mine hand.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
Then, as the book saith, Sir Launcelot began to resort unto Queen Guenever again, and forgat the promise that he made in the quest.
From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
From Parish Papers by Norman Macleod
"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
That concourse thrilled for joy: Alone that seven years' child retained the word: The rest forgat it.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere
Recently, he forgot where TCM was on his cable box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
"For everyone that I haven't sent back money to, I just forgot, feel free to double request me."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“One thing she never forgot was the cafe,” De Carmo said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The thermostat had been set to 71 degrees Fahrenheit and a worker forgot to turn off the air-conditioning.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
“I cured his stomachache with a blackberry root, but he forgot that.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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The subject was largely forgotten as panelists spoke about how this energy shock will evolve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
R.E.M. always had a sense of humor that felt like it got forgotten or overlooked once they were playing stadiums.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
This next example would be good for every 25-year-old to tape to his or her fridge so it’s not forgotten.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Patriotism as enacted by the creative community takes the American experiment seriously enough to question, examine, remember what we’ve forgotten and catalyze collective American dreaming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
I have forgotten to breathe and only realize it when I gasp, sucking in the close air of the little living room.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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“Every secretary of you know defense, transportation, treasury commerce IRS commissioner everyone gets right back to me,” she wrote, before adding the FBI director, his name misspelled: “Oh yeah, l’m forgetting cash Patel.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
"I am slowly forgetting all the tricks," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Mr. Wade’s tour of folk music is designed to keep us from forgetting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Corey Seemiller told me every generation tends to romanticize the version of young adulthood it experienced while quietly forgetting the parts that weren’t so glamorous.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
I whistled and sang, forgetting that my brothers had to take a bath too.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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