forget
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Let's not forget Donnarumma's late save because it was a brilliant stop, but Maresca's men were comfortable most of the time.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
She casts a spell that her daughters forget about magic and never practice again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
I will never forget the confusion, and then the sheer terror, of that day.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
We should never forget Sept. 11 and its victims, but America’s fever has to break.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
I told him that when I was little, my favorite thing to draw was my family but I’d often forget to draw their arms.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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That is, until Tom forgets his jacket inside the bookstore.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
No matter how big he becomes, he never forgets where he came from.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
"The system forgets you; that is the beauty of it," says Anadol.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
“I forget about my age constantly because I think everyone forgets about their age,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
I say out loud as my Noise forgets itself and all there is in the universe is my legs moving.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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Yet he forgat not, father as he was Of these, his absent eldest, whom he mourn’d 30 Ceaseless, and thus his speech, weeping, began.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
"And ye hev forgat yer sacred office to call me nicknames," answered Matthew, nothing abashed.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
Mistress Lewthwaite saith thou didst guess it to be one thou hadst known down in the shires, but she had forgat the name.”
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
The words of the good father ended, new ioy surprised the heart of Iulietta, who was so attentiue to his talke as she forgat no one poynct of hir lesson.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
Then, as the book saith, Sir Launcelot began to resort unto Queen Guenever again, and forgat the promise that he made in the quest.
From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler
Rolison’s case is one of inertia; he most likely forgot about his beneficiary designation entirely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Nonetheless, many have wondered why these people are not being investigated or prosecuted, and whether Massie forgot to name some other prominent people.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Then I kind of forgot about it until I got the email through and I had to check it was real so many times because I was like 'surely not'."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
James finds the gas on in the kitchen, although Lou insists she turned it off, and tension simmers between them when James suggests that maybe she forgot because of her medication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Sometimes they still forgot, but he reminded them each time, and they were learning.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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The impoverished country has long been at war in a forgotten corner of the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
They have about them a sense of just-rightness—so that, once seen, they are not soon forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
I still think about a shokupan dog I ate years ago at a Japanese bakery in Washington whose name I have entirely forgotten, though apparently not its merchandise.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Gasly is well liked within the paddock, and has many friends among the drivers, but he has long been one of F1's forgotten heroes, regardless of that win six years ago.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
I wonder how many homeless men I’ve forgotten.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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The Southern California natives are sure to shake hands after games and discuss happenings back home while never forgetting that “Winter is Coming.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Corey Seemiller told me every generation tends to romanticize the version of young adulthood it experienced while quietly forgetting the parts that weren’t so glamorous.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Congress shouldn’t honor the first Roosevelt lesson by forgetting the second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The family started noticing Stiles was forgetting things and asking the same question several times in his late 50s and early 60s.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Everyone grabbed their backpacks, forgetting me as suddenly as they’d noticed me.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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