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forget

[fer-get] / fərˈgɛt /




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"But we'll also never forget the friendship the British people showed us with an outpouring of letters and flowers from all over the country."

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

"Nor can it use economic benefits to make the people forget this ugly historical episode," he added.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Watching videos on the Duo is a nice experience—nice enough that you forget the screen is 0.7 inches smaller than the iPad Mini’s.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

The question, then, is not whether Americans will forget parts of 9/11.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

Oh and let’s not forget, changing something could result in unforeseen consequences to my family.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

That is, until Tom forgets his jacket inside the bookstore.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

We need to restore that belief, before the generation we indulged forgets it forever.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

There’s a great accidental gag in a cut bit from the original MTV pilot when a deputy pulls up to arrest Knoxville and forgets to put her car in park.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

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

From Barron's Jun. 19, 2026

I had leftover kimchi and a cold bagel with cream cheese, which is what Mom gives me when she forgets to make my lunch the day before.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Yet he forgat not, father as he was Of these, his absent eldest, whom he mourn’d 30 Ceaseless, and thus his speech, weeping, began.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper

I maist forgat my dedication; But when divinity comes cross me My readers still are sure to lose me.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

There I lay down and went to sleep before long, but deemed I heard no little talk going on betwixt Anna and the guest ere I forgat it all.

From The Sundering Flood by May Morris

Only I forgat to make mention of Aunt Joyce.

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

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

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

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

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 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

James finds the gas on in the kitchen, although Lou insists she turned it off, and tension simmers between them when James suggests that maybe she forgot because of her medication.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Matthew Rhys: I forgot about the executive producer part.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

It’s like the time Skye put socks on her Australian shepherd and the poor dog forgot how to walk normally.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

While the country was knocked sideways by the Sept. 11 attacks, I was a closeted kid alone in a new city, and football did something for me that I have never forgotten.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2026

In “Nary a Horse Left Standing,” Mr. Dugatkin offers a lively history of a forgotten event known as the Great Epizootic of 1872.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

Once he is on the field, however, the size difference is forgotten.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

A fundraising drive has been launched to purchase a south of Scotland church with links to the man described as "Scotland's forgotten Einstein".

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

There’d be some place I’d forgotten that would clearly have a Wonder or two sitting around collecting dust.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

For those of us who were alive in 2001, forgetting the day itself is almost impossible.

From Salon Sep. 8, 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

The results can be found today in professional locker rooms around the country, today’s stars never forgetting the 5-foot-4 bulldog who gave them their first headline.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

But queer clubs were never only about forgetting.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

She went on, almost forgetting in her excitement to keep her voice to a whisper, while I slowly took in the fact that she was talking about our guards.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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