forget
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"And just like with any miracle... you just can't forget about it, because it's simply impossible to forget," he added, gazing up at the Virgin.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
If you believe in the long-term growth of the United States, buy the S&P 500 and forget about it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Even when OpenAI tries to prevent ChatGPT from offering users help with weapons or violent plans, employees found that chatbots sometimes forget their own guidelines during extended conversations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
"Because it was our language. That half hour made us forget everything else."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
I shall never forget the first words he said to us.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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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
I take a tapa of rabo de toro, a stewed tail so tender it forgets it was ever muscle.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
"The system forgets you; that is the beauty of it," says Anadol.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
The sea is sometimes so tranquil that Captain Hassan Khan forgets his ship has been stuck in the middle of a war zone for three months.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Sometimes Ray forgets to stay with his humans and goes off on unexpected adventures, leading to much worry.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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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 Saintsbury, George
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 Burns, Robert
In the preterit some are likewise formed by a, as brake, spake, bare, share, sware, tare, ware, clave, gat, begat, forgat, and perhaps some others, but more rarely.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel
Your pardon, Dame; I forgat for the nonce that I spake to his daughter.
From The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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 Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
The light-bodied red, Passeggiata, he explained, was a rosé gone wrong when winemakers forgot to remove the grapes’ skins at the correct time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Marine Corps officer from Dayton, Ohio, who had bought three tickets on a whim and promptly forgot about them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
"They banned bringing them to the stadium and forgot that we carry them in our blood and our hearts."
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
“I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me,” she wrote in a since-deleted 2019 social-media post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
“You forgot about planning your funeral,” Jonah said.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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But then the case was seemingly instantly forgotten.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The Tour de France has a chequered history that cannot be forgotten.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Despite AI stocks taking the role that cryptocurrency has occupied in recent years—a high-risk source for exponential growth— cryptocurrency hasn’t been forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Do you sometimes buy books that you’ve forgotten you already have?
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
I hadn’t forgotten the accusing look Miss Buckner had given me when she saw me with the petty cash—as if I had been doing something untoward, soliciting favors from Mr. Haber.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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But queer clubs were never only about forgetting.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
“When you hear a song a million times, you kind of start forgetting what it’s even about,” Kittrell says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
"At times, especially in the first set, it looked like she wanted it so bad that she was almost forgetting to release into the shot."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Setting and forgetting your student-loan payments could soon give you a big discount.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
I whistled and sang, forgetting that my brothers had to take a bath too.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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