forget
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"Once I realised I'd made the error, it's a really difficult place to try to forget that and move on," England says.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
I used to wait two or three years for her to forget that she’d heard it, then I’d pitch it to her again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
He urged the public not to forget the tragedy, calling for such disasters never to happen again.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
“If you miss like Intel did, forget it.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
‘You’re the best boy in the world. I’ll never, ever forget you.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Here’s the thing about spending a month off-grid and overseas: Your body forgets how it feels to exist in America every day.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
"The experience was something one never forgets or can be equalled."
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
We need to restore that belief, before the generation we indulged forgets it forever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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
I want to be like you, Mama, but I can’t understand anyone who forgets about food.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
From Parish Papers by Norman Macleod
But then ’gan he to talk of mine eyes, which he is ever a-praising, and after a while I forgat my disease.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
While nights at Deildar-Tongue were long, They clean forgat the Brothers'-Tongue.
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough 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
I may well conceive that in the haste and labour of making ready on so sudden summons, both you and your niece may easily have forgat the matter.
From All's Well Alice's Victory by M. Lewin
We went out there and started playing, and about halfway through “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” Glen forgot the lyrics — forgot whether he was in Albuquerque or Flagstaff or wherever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
If you forgot the hard copies, you can find the code online.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
It’s possible that they forgot prior generosity and focused on your “sorry, no.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
A Welsh actress named in a prestigious line-up that has previously featured the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch and Florence Pugh says the selection was "so unexpected" that she forgot she applied.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“I forgot all about that monkey. Why is it so important?”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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You are more relaxed than you have ever been, and you have forgotten the way nearly every news story of the last decade grabs hold of your heart and squeezes, twists, strangles.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
Study co-author Dr. Sudipta Show of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur said the findings suggest that the forgotten particle may have dramatically altered the expansion history of the young cosmos.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
Few in royal circles will have forgotten a 2022 turbulent trip to Jamaica by Prince William, when he and Princess Catherine were met with anti-monarchy protests and calls for reparations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
A security researcher had flagged it as a problem area decades earlier, but the flaw had been considered too difficult to exploit and was largely forgotten, Duong said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
“I’d mostly forgotten about the whole thing,” Jonah says.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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"I am slowly forgetting all the tricks," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
—Southwest pilot and pilot podcast host Max Palmer, on wealthy pilots who splurge on boats, cars and planes, forgetting about past layoffs and industry crises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
I whistled and sang, forgetting that my brothers had to take a bath too.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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