forget
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“Then a few hours later, he thought, ‘Well, we can’t forget John Ford.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Readers will not soon forget 6-year-old “Harry” arriving at the glorious insight that “sweets are good for you—not your teeth—good for YOU.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
When you win, you get your payout minus the cut for the house and for taxes, which many people forget about.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The crash in Monza was very tough for him to forget.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
As they were singing, I found I could lose myself completely in the music, that I could forget all the dreadful things that were going on in the world.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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It seems likely that with each passing year, humanity collectively forgets more of its cultural heritage than it manages to learn anew.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
William starts out slowly now, so as not to overtake the pilgrims, but soon the cool air and swooping larks whip his mood into a fine, happy froth, and he completely forgets.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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To you! to you! all song of praise is due: Only for you the heaven forgat all measure.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
From Parish Papers by Norman Macleod
I well-nigh forgat the sleeves—green velvet, slashed of mallard-colour satin; and guarded o’ silver lace—three pound, eight shillings, and four pence.”
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
In the preterit some are likewise formed by a, as brake, spake, bare, share, sware, tare, ware, clave, gat, begat, forgat, and perhaps some others, but more rarely.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
Nor then forgat brave Sthenelus his charge Received from Diomede, but his own steeds Detaining distant from the boisterous war,370 Stretch'd tight the reins, and hook'd them fast behind.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
Customers who forgot to send a postcard saying they wanted nothing to do with ‘90s Steven Tyler can still point to a copy of “Nine Lives” on their shelves.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
The pop star said even though she worked with other producers over the years, she never forgot Orbit and "the magical time we spent together".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
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
With help from friends and AI, Mr. Dipke set up a website for the Cockroach Janta Party, which calls itself “a political party for the people the system forgot to count.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
He looked so sweet and harmless that I forgot sense and stuck my finger out to him, as if he were a tame bird.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Concours d’Lemons celebrates something very different: the odd, forgotten and sometimes downright terrible cars that rarely make it onto a concours lawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Then, as markets boom in the next bubble, the lesson is forgotten.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
A series of powerful hurricane-driven swells have surfaced forgotten remnants of Newport Beach’s infrastructure that lay buried beneath sand and water for many decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
They used to have such charisma but I feel that they're becoming F1's forgotten team.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
And yet it had become such a normal part of his existence, he’d long ago forgotten to feel any shame in it.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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
Whereas the poem ends with order restored, the film leaves history caught in an endless cycle of collapse, rebirth and forgetting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Setting and forgetting your student-loan payments could soon give you a big discount.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
He kept forgetting that Piper’s dad was Tristan McLean, A-list movie star.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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