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forget

[fer-get] / fərˈgɛt /




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Still, you must not forget, everyone is normal to himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

India bowlers Krishna and Naman Dhir picked up injuries while paceman Auqib Nabi had a debut to forget - conceding 84 runs, the fourth-most by an Indian winning his first ODI cap.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“It is important now that people don’t forget what we have done,” Guardiola said at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

What did he understand about government debt that we forget today?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

“I should not have said anything to you. Please try to forget this. Your job is to do your job, to help us win the war. That should be your only focus.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

"He has no phone or wallet with him and probably forgets the name of the hotel," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

"The system forgets you; that is the beauty of it," says Anadol.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

“I forget about my age constantly because I think everyone forgets about their age,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

But when the games matter most, the unstoppable offensive machine who revolutionized the sport somehow forgets how to score.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

While nights at Deildar-Tongue were long, They clean forgat the Brothers'-Tongue.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

From Parish Papers by Norman Macleod

But when Richard Cameron began to speak, I easily forgat everything else.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

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

“One thing she never forgot was the cafe,” De Carmo said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

He seems to gradually rediscover his brother’s charms—“I forgot how funny he was.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Rolison’s case is one of inertia; he most likely forgot about his beneficiary designation entirely.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Sometimes he portrays her as a shrew, whining last year about how he’d be “in trouble” if he forgot to mention their anniversary during a speech.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

“Boy-oh-boy, Grandpa,” I said, “I almost forgot Daisy’s ribbons.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

I feel we’ve forgotten the art of making albums now that we’re so focused on playlists and TikTok.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Chae, the defector, said her hope was that the North's isolated people are not one day simply forgotten by the outside world.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Yet she was largely forgotten after her death in 1973 before being rediscovered decades later.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

And, with the museum’s dim lighting, dated technology and underutilized areas, it can feel at times as if one is wandering in a past-its-prime shopping mall or in the forgotten corner of an airport terminal.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

I grab my skateboard, which I’d forgotten to put back in the garage, and head out through the back patio.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

"I am slowly forgetting all the tricks," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

But which things are normal forgetting, associated with aging, and which things are signs of trouble?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

—Southwest pilot and pilot podcast host Max Palmer, on wealthy pilots who splurge on boats, cars and planes, forgetting about past layoffs and industry crises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

As memory scholar Paul Connerton has argued, some forms of forgetting are not failures but necessary parts of social life.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

That’s what forgetting your grandpa’s face feels like.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri




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