forsake
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But Iran's governing football body has accused Australia of kidnapping the players and forcing them to forsake their home nation against their will.
From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026
I can’t be the only 57-year-old who would forsake both for six uninterrupted hours.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Adult men should survive without requiring women to forsake our own goals and desires in order to serve them.
From Salon • Jan. 3, 2024
“We will not. … San Francisco, beautiful San Francisco, though others forsake you, we will always be your friend.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2023
“I always said he was a thief. And my mother! To forsake my father, who was like Hyperion, the sun god, and bind herself to this demon! Where is her judgment, where is her reason?”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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