forget
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Marriage, lest we forget, is a personal, legal and financial contract.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
“I want to tell their stories so profoundly that no one will ever forget these characters,” she told the Dallas Morning News of her characters in 2017.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
Oh, and don’t forget the mistaken lament of Justice Elena Kagan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
"You forget other people don't know that voice and they need to get to know that starting point to be able to appreciate everything else."
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
I must have torn it up in my coat pocket after my interview and then done my best to forget about it.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Here’s the thing about spending a month off-grid and overseas: Your body forgets how it feels to exist in America every day.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
When she forgets that, she added, her team reminds her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
That is, until Tom forgets his jacket inside the bookstore.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
No matter how big he becomes, he never forgets where he came from.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
She said a big brother has to know how to change diapers in case his mom forgets.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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But both pope & prince forgat in the meane while, that Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non excoriare.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed
While nights at Deildar-Tongue were long, They clean forgat the Brothers'-Tongue.
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris
I well-nigh forgat the sleeves—green velvet, slashed of mallard-colour satin; and guarded o’ silver lace—three pound, eight shillings, and four pence.”
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
I forgat to tell you, that you must lay a Puff-paste at the bottom of the dish, before you put in the bread, and cover it with the same.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
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
“People’s willingness to listen to scientists was not necessarily coming back after laetrile. And I think regulators and scientists forgot it at their own peril.”
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
A mural of Bonnie Tyler has been unveiled in her hometown as a tribute to the global star "who never forgot her roots".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
“I completely forgot how often the same actors came back playing totally different characters,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
It’s possible that they forgot prior generosity and focused on your “sorry, no.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
I forgot that was a thing the Post Office did.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Mostly forgotten now, these were important men who shaped popular literary opinion and sat on prize committees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
“We’ve really forgotten that, as human beings, we are wired to ground ourselves through our connection to other people,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Last month it was gutted by fire in a suspected arson attack, and some believe it should be completely destroyed, the site returned to nature and all memory of its Nazi past forgotten.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
I sat with her during her final two weeks, and I don’t think he’s forgotten that.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Like she’d discovered him, a relic hidden away in the corners of this forgotten café.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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Meanwhile, the misgivings that both Padam Singh and Heera Devi say they initially had about stepping in front of the camera and forgetting their lines are gone now.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
"I am slowly forgetting all the tricks," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Americans forgo untold sums of money every year on what some might call a laziness tax, for oversights like failing to refinance their mortgage or incurring a late fee after forgetting to pay a bill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The member of the Groundlings main company has made guest appearances throughout the year with the Joes, sometimes catching themselves watching in admiration and forgetting they were in the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
He turned back, “I’m even forgetting why I came. Can you see me tonight, Nat, after you close? I’ve something to show you.”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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