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forget

[fer-get] / fərˈgɛt /




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The crash in Monza was very tough for him to forget.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

“I just never want people to forget about his music. That’s for sure. His voice was just amazing,” said Irma, who will be speaking at Saturday’s event.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

I forget if the story came up as 5 percent A.I.-assisted, 9 percent, or whatever.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

The public that funds all these colleges, one way or another, shouldn’t forget.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

"Do not forget the claw of the mighty bear!" my father shouted.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

No matter how big he becomes, he never forgets where he came from.

From BBC Jul. 7, 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

Sometimes she forgets that I don’t like that word since everything that went down at the start of the year.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

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 M. (Madelaine) Irwin

That concourse thrilled for joy: Alone that seven years' child retained the word: The rest forgat it.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere

So sweet was the tone of the bell that no man heard it but he straightway forgat all that aforetime had troubled him.

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates

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

Rather, it plays like the 84th episode of a time-killing cable series that people forgot was still on the air.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

He makes it his personal mission that no one gets a parking ticket for street cleaning on our block, going up and down the block twice a week to remind anyone who forgot.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

"They can't be shoved to the back and forgot about. We'll do everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen."

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Jack Ma forgot that, briefly, in October 2020, when at a financial regulators’ summit he said the Chinese banking system operated like a pawnshop.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

I totally forgot with all the drama that happened in the car.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Then, as markets boom in the next bubble, the lesson is forgotten.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

Query why emoluments get the backhand, and this clause is sort of forgotten and maybe implicitly deemed as this backwater.

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

For me, death is when my music is forgotten by all of the audience.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

“People have forgotten the important diversification benefit that comes with duration.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

She wondered if she’d forgotten to breathe in front of the class.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Congress shouldn’t honor the first Roosevelt lesson by forgetting the second.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

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

There was the Brazil team's memorable airport scenes ad from France '98, not forgetting Adidas' Jose +10 offering from 2006 in which two children built their dream teams by selecting their favourite footballers.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

But now, he was forgetting exactly what he was believing in.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova




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