forfeited
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Pakistan were adjudged to have forfeited the match after refusing to play after tea on the fourth day, the only instance in Test history when a team has forfeited a Test.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
In the aftermath of his conviction he asked to be removed from the Privy Council and for his knighthood to be forfeited.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
In dissent, Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, said the Mississippi state courts had concluded that Pitchford’s trial team had forfeited a portion of their argument about racially discriminatory jury selection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Although I forfeited my membership in the Partnered People club, I became a member of another, equally nonexclusive-but-far-less-touted club, the Happily Divorced Women.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
He has, as a consequence of his crime, not only forfeited his liberty, but all his personal rights except those which the law in its humanity accords to him.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
