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forget

[fer-get] / fərˈgɛt /




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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

"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

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

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

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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