forget
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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