forget
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Don’t forget that this list is for aggressive short-term traders only.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Because this is a team with so many weapons they seem sometimes to almost forget about one of them — Adams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
We obsess over Kobe as the standard when it comes to training, but people forget he was a human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Speaking to Lucy Owen on BBC Radio Wales, Evans said watching Rhys win the awards was "an experience I will never ever forget or probably match".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
As they were singing, I found I could lose myself completely in the music, that I could forget all the dreadful things that were going on in the world.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
"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
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
"The system forgets you; that is the beauty of it," says Anadol.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 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
It’s so frigid and so utterly and completely dark that she forgets about the pain in her feet and in her butt and even, for a moment, her heart.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
To you! to you! all song of praise is due: Only for you the heaven forgat all measure.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
And they both forgat the Sundering Flood, and how they should never meet, as they sat each side of the fearful water, and the tale and sweet speech sped to and fro betwixt them.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
From Parish Papers by Norman Macleod
Nor then forgat brave Sthenelus his charge Received from Diomede, but his own steeds Detaining distant from the boisterous war,370 Stretch'd tight the reins, and hook'd them fast behind.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
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
While watching a video of a pastry class I took, I realized I forgot the name of the dessert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Nonetheless, many have wondered why these people are not being investigated or prosecuted, and whether Massie forgot to name some other prominent people.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The front page of the Daily Star is dedicated to a confession from Declan Donnelly, who said he once forgot to pay for an egg and bacon sandwich from Marks & Spencer.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 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 totally forgot with all the drama that happened in the car.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Those latter “second-round” effects have been largely forgotten about in recent decades because “most of those oil shocks in the last 40 years tended to be fairly short lived,” says Morgan Stanley economist Michael Gapen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
In the process, she discovered the forgotten digital detritus left on their hard drives: old resumes, photo albums, Word documents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“It’s really quite radical to make this little old lady, one of the forgotten generation of left-behind women, your master sleuth.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Despite mixed emotions about his time at Chelsea due to injury, Hutchinson has not forgotten how the club looked after him.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Have you forgotten the day you and Rowdy came in, bitten all over?”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The Southern California natives are sure to shake hands after games and discuss happenings back home while never forgetting that “Winter is Coming.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The more interesting question is what remains after that forgetting takes place.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mr. Wade’s tour of folk music is designed to keep us from forgetting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“She knows she has it. She knows she’s forgetting things. And this trip was an opportunity to not let the Alzheimer’s matter anymore.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Emma’s project of forgetting Mr. Elton for a while made her rather sorry to find, when they had all taken their places, that he was close to her.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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