forsake
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But Iran's governing football body has accused Australia of kidnapping the players and forcing them to forsake their home nation against their will.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
I can’t be the only 57-year-old who would forsake both for six uninterrupted hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
As a single mom of three children, she’ll gladly forsake the arduous cross-country commute to Washington, and also looks forward to being around when her kids get home from school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024
Adult men should survive without requiring women to forsake our own goals and desires in order to serve them.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2024
“I knew you wouldn’t forsake me just when I need you most.”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
A dapper dresser, he forsakes his closet for T-shirts and baggy jeans.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
Communion’s corn chowder forsakes the usual restaurant goal of consistency in favor of homestyle evolution.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2021
Zumthor and Govan are clearly attempting to place the art-going experience on a higher, newer plane, one that forsakes the normal strategies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2020
Director X’s “Superfly” transplants the 1972 Blaxploitation classic from Harlem streets to suburban Atlanta mansions, flips Curtis Mayfield’s soul score for Future’s hip-hop soundtrack and forsakes the original’s politically charged grit for shallow music-video indulgence.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2018
There was a dignity to her grief and an acceptance of the fait accompli—the fatalism that the pilot’s wife must beget whenever her mate forsakes her for his aircraft.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Instead, Latinos forsook movement politics in this election and seem poised to do the same in the future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024
As a young college graduate, Mr. Whitworth forsook a promising career as a jazz trumpeter to do a different kind of improvisation as a journalist.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Later, he forsook arts cinema to become a highly bankable commercial actor, as at home in comedy as in drama.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2021
“American spray paint companies basically forsook graffiti in the ’90s,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2020
“The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago,” said I, speaking as seriously as he had done.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
He included photos of Pinky, headless and forsaken, but safe amid piles of overstuffed filing boxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Underwater and forsaken, American homeowners watched as their earth-toned Tuscan kitchens and quirky bits of ornament made their homes slow to move in a glutted market.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025
He goes on to say they were "looking forward to a day scampering" and made the decision to leave their packs because they spent two days "lugging them up this God forsaken valley".
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
Henley’s current lawyer, Dan Petrocelli, said in an emailed statement that the attorney-client privilege that had previously shielded some of the communications “is a foundational guardrail in our justice system” that should rarely be forsaken.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
And even so he would never have just forsaken it, or cast it aside.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"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
Finally, she is forced to choose between forsaking her sense of safety and success and risking it all to embrace her truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
She turns to me, forsaking her view for a moment.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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