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forsaking



NOUN
dereliction
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"I think Cam is a one-major guy if you go to LIV because you are forsaking your competitiveness for money," Clayton told me in 2023.

From BBC Dec. 2, 2025

Even more than an internal feeling, truly great art produces new conversations, and this one about how to create without forsaking yourself in the process is only just beginning.

From Salon Mar. 12, 2025

Now, 108 years later, the latest incarnation of that league – the PAC 12 – may be fading into sports history as Washington joins several other universities in forsaking the venerable West Coast athletic collective.

From Seattle Times Aug. 8, 2023

Chinese companies have no intention of forsaking the American economy, still the largest on earth.

From New York Times Feb. 3, 2023

He bared his wrist, and offered it to me: the blood was forsaking his cheek and lips, they were growing livid; I was distressed on all hands.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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