forget
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Metaphorically alluding to the satirical newspaper “The Onion,” the narrator says that to pull off this operation, the team had to stick together like layers of an onion: “Never forget, onion is strength.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
"It's a tragedy none of us will ever forget," he said.
From BBC ● 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
“Thank you,” he says in this sweet little voice that almost makes me forget he tried to escape again.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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That is, until Tom forgets his jacket inside the bookstore.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Its subject is Hannah Upp, a young teacher prey to dissociative fugue states in which she forgets her own identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
No matter how big he becomes, he never forgets where he came from.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Olympic hockey team’s win over the Soviets in 1980—is a triumph tattooed on the national memory, though the memory frequently forgets that the game wasn’t shown until three hours after the puck dropped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
She forgets about the floor and puts her feet down.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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But both pope & prince forgat in the meane while, that Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non excoriare.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed
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
Item, cross-garters of scarlet—how’s that?” quoth Ned, scratching his forehead with a pencil: “I must have forgat the price o’ them.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
Then by her kisses did she know he frowned, But close about him her fair arms she wound, Until for happiness he 'gan to smile, And in those arms forgat all else awhile.
From The Earthly Paradise A Poem by William Morris
Joseph made a touching appeal to the Chief Butler: “yet did not the Chief Butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.”
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
Rolison’s case is one of inertia; he most likely forgot about his beneficiary designation entirely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 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
Allen met with Parton years ago and said she never forgot her roots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
“Right. I forgot that’s a thing you do.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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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
I love taking something that’s been neglected and restoring it and then using it so it’s not just forgotten.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
But that backdrop will be forgotten when it comes to head-to-head matchplay.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
On my bed lay the new maroon dress; I had forgotten to put it back on.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
Mr. Wade’s tour of folk music is designed to keep us from forgetting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But queer clubs were never only about forgetting.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
"I have been lucky as a player. I have enjoyed happy moments, today is not such a moment. We must accept it without forgetting everything we experienced."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
He was preening, apparently forgetting that he’d placed me in the show just this morning.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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