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If Ms. Josephson wants her students to forsake communities, she needs to convince them that their lives as successful individuals will be better than their lives as successful members of the collective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

Adult men should survive without requiring women to forsake our own goals and desires in order to serve them.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2024

"Beautiful San Francisco, though others forsake you, we will always be your friend," Musk wrote.

From Reuters ● Jul. 30, 2023

“I knew you wouldn’t forsake me just when I need you most.”

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

One of these is Charles G. Koch’s 2015 book, “Good Profit,” an example of what happens when a billionaire adopts Alger’s preachy moralizing but forsakes the narrative of mobility that made him compelling.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

We agreed to disagree that my favorite Nolan film, “Interstellar,” forsakes emotion for an intricate plot.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2020

Defensive lineman Aaron Donald said he forsakes the sweet treats to keep his “four-pack” abs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2018

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

They fled to modernity — Parton to Nashville, my parents to Southern California — as soon as they could but never forsook their hometowns, helping those who remained and taking their culture with them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

And for thee I hungered and forsook my bed.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

Mr. Greenberger’s title poses the question: Why has Morris been forsaken?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Even though the tournament ended only three days ago, the soccer paraphernalia feels like a forsaken Christmas tree wilting in February.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Now that they’ve forsaken the last obstacle to selling out entirely, they will likely lose many more.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 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

“We’re never going to get picked up,” Katz announced despondently after cars had forsaken us for fifteen minutes.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

"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

It also added a neon sign and then subtracted it, eventually forsaking much of its original design as owners and managers came and went.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

Even so, losing her voice didn’t mean forsaking her songwriting, a talent that led to a resourceful strategy for a comeback.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

She turns to me, forsaking her view for a moment.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman