forgo
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“Should we just forgo the bike lanes and do a straight repave? The answer was no, we wanna use the grant money for the bike lanes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
At that rate, California would forgo $2.25 billion, Illinois $743 million and Michigan $549 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
It seems unlikely that the coiffed and polished Harp would freely choose to forgo a real suitcase in order to carry an oversized sack like a disorganized college kid.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
A video playing on loop on a screen above the counter encourages the sailors to forgo table service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Skin healed, but an empty spot in her hairline...Violet had to forgo payment to shut her up.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
Typically wearing a traditional Caribbean shirt, Cepeda forgoes a tie, which he considers a symbol of oligarchy.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
The Polestar 4 forgoes a conventional rearview mirror—or a rear window, period—and instead uses a video display and a rear-facing camera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
It forgoes the sticky glaze in favor of a deep brown gravy that pools and clings.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
In Guillermo Cienfuegos’ enlivening, if at times unsteady, production at A Noise Within, the role is played by Ann Noble, who forgoes the outdated hunchback but adopts a seething, slithering, perversely seductive aura of menace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
She forgoes all of the usual motel thrills, like unwrapping the soaps and hunting for the Bible.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
Petrobras said the war significantly affected its export markets, as Asian buyers received Russian crude that European and North American buyers forwent.
From Reuters ● Jul. 28, 2022
But last year, the company forwent a single choice and instead highlighted the pandemic’s sudden and pervasive influence on the language more broadly.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
The reaction back home forwent most of the five stages of grief and focused simply on the anger.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2020
For further meaning, he did so with players who forwent the mini-fashion of skipping bowl games with NFL futures in mind even though that fashion is just as understandable as playing.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2020
I forwent Supper and walked by the shore of the Charles until I could see Boston.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
The forgone wages and benefits of these retirees add up to an estimated $201 billion annually and the loss of payroll contributions represents a $356 million hit to federal tax revenue, Implan estimates.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
The prosecution added that it was not a forgone conclusion the defendants would be deported following these convictions.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
Kaegi, a former fund manager who has written large checks to his own campaigns, has forgone donations from lawyers or major property owners, as have two of the three members of the Board of Review.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
For starters, “it would be considered well within the standard of care” for Biden to have forgone testing in recent years, given his age, Sandler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
Couldn’t he have forgone a weekend in Vegas?
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
He grew the company for 21 years, at times forgoing retirement-saving to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Frustrated homeowners are responding in two major ways: forgoing insurance, or opting for higher deductibles.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Are they buying fewer types of green ingredients in particular or just forgoing certain places and brands altogether?
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
It would have also meant the government forgoing a contractual right to sue Damen Navel for damages, the ministry added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
I found Hamlet's conclusion unjust, and forgoing my modest manner, I spoke boldly.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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