forfeit
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He was also ordered to forfeit all personal assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Although initially defiant in a now-deleted Instagram post, Wietrzyk apologised in the week after the Beijing event and said she would forfeit the win and retroactively withdraw from the race.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Americans collectively forfeit billions of dollars annually in unused benefits, which often expire at the end of the calendar year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Because Inglewood lost to Westlake of Austin on Aug. 28, a forfeit was moot for this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Reshevsky paced up and down, a few spectators waited patiently, and when the little red flag fell precisely at noon, the tournament director declared the game a forfeit.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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If Warsh goes quiet while his colleagues continue to give economic-outlook speeches, a kind of unilateral disarmament could take hold where the chair forfeits the bully pulpit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
But a court that tolerates such defiance eventually forfeits the right to demand obedience.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
Alford responded with a Bible verse from the Gospel of Matthew: “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” according to texts viewed by The Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Norco football facing forfeits and the latest school in a season of forfeits in the Southern Section.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
“Either your player forfeits the set, or he gets back out there and finishes the game,” Reverend Hollister continued.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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It is understood that when Amar Ilyas's defence team applied for bail, which the prosecution had the opportunity to contest, no request for his passport to be forfeited was made.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Palisades High athletic director Rocky Montz announced Thursday afternoon that the Dolphins have forfeited their nonleague football game at San Pedro on Friday night because of an illness outbreak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Within days, all of college sports’ major conferences adopted policies against such players returning, essentially enforcing the NCAA’s original rule that players who had been through the NFL draft process forfeited any remaining eligibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
A government that will chase its own citizens for taxes incurred in 1999 has forfeited any argument that 1938 is too long ago to matter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
And though even Duntz had forfeited his composure—had shed, along with tie and coat, his enigmatic drowsy dignity— the suspect seemed content and serene; he refused to budge.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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Retailers facing higher wholesale prices for fuel deliveries are given the choice of passing this increase onto the customer, or forfeiting their profitable margins.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Rather than insuring against a specific risk that went badly in the past, “the government started heading off opportunities for risk altogether, explicitly forfeiting growth in exchange for safety.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"We want the Lebanese state to negotiate for itself, and nobody is suggesting forfeiting this role," Fayyad said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026
It’s a winning combination for these two indexes to reduce risk by a fifth while forfeiting only about a 10th of the S&P 500 return.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026
Yet should he admit this and risk forfeiting the one friend who had ever “truly understood” him?
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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