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
"But we'll also never forget the friendship the British people showed us with an outpouring of letters and flowers from all over the country."
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
Despite the hot, angry tears that blur my vision, the truth I’ve been avoiding for so long cuts deep, leaving a scar so I’ll never forget.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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"The system forgets you; that is the beauty of it," says Anadol.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
The sea is sometimes so tranquil that Captain Hassan Khan forgets his ship has been stuck in the middle of a war zone for three months.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
I don’t know how somebody loses their way and forgets that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
But Quinta probably breaks the most because … she genuinely forgets about some of the jokes that she writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
Smoke was suddenly everywhere, like the air in a living room where someone forgets to open the flue before starting a fire.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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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
Lile Doed were that fain he started clappin' his hands an' well-nigh forgat all about Melsh Dick an' t' squirrel.
From More Tales of the Ridings by Frederic William Moorman
Truly, I forgat the same at that time; and now I have not the money to mine hand.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
I maist forgat my dedication; But when divinity comes cross me My readers still are sure to lose me.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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
Rolison’s case is one of inertia; he most likely forgot about his beneficiary designation entirely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 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
Perhaps the production was so focused on making sure all the actors looked pallid, and every scene lifeless, that they forgot to add the thrills and chills.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Matthew Rhys: I forgot about the executive producer part.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
And to look at it yet another way, he and I have had infinite conversations, all in my brain, from the moment I forgot the code.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
The noise around LSU grew so loud in recent days that you might have forgotten that the Tigers’ football team actually plays football.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
A fundraising drive has been launched to purchase a south of Scotland church with links to the man described as "Scotland's forgotten Einstein".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
But the real understanding of women’s anger can be found in much earlier sources—ones possibly forgotten, if not for the runaway success of “The Odyssey.”
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
I had almost forgotten why I was here, but now the shame and nerves are back.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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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
As memory scholar Paul Connerton has argued, some forms of forgetting are not failures but necessary parts of social life.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mr. Wade’s tour of folk music is designed to keep us from forgetting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The results can be found today in professional locker rooms around the country, today’s stars never forgetting the 5-foot-4 bulldog who gave them their first headline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Whenever I forget to take the chicken out of the freezer, she lectures me—and then proceeds to prosecute me for forgetting to turn in my language arts essay.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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