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
We should never forget Sept. 11 and its victims, but America’s fever has to break.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 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
‘Thank you for everything you did for us. I will never forget you, ever.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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"Just in case President Trump or anyone else forgets, we've set up this sign to remind them, it's Lake Ontario, now and forever," Ontario Premier Doug Ford said.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
"The system forgets you; that is the beauty of it," says Anadol.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 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
And it struck me, too, that no one 'Curtis Bok, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, speech at Radcliffe College Commencement, 1960. there forgets, no one there forgives.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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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
Mistress Lewthwaite saith thou didst guess it to be one thou hadst known down in the shires, but she had forgat the name.”
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
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
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
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
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
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
Allen met with Parton years ago and said she never forgot her roots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
I’d been so concerned with getting the spinning done in time that I forgot to ask.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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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
Those who saw this show haven’t forgotten it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
I still think about a shokupan dog I ate years ago at a Japanese bakery in Washington whose name I have entirely forgotten, though apparently not its merchandise.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
“Oh, I’d forgotten about that already,” Clare said, even though he hadn’t.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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
The more interesting question is what remains after that forgetting takes place.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
“She knows she has it. She knows she’s forgetting things. And this trip was an opportunity to not let the Alzheimer’s matter anymore.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The UK's first billionaire sportsman has been in so many adverts from Home Depot to Bank of America, you could be forgiven for forgetting what brand he is actually representing.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
They were no concern of hers, and so the dead were doomed to watch the train rush past, forgetting them just as quickly as the rest of the world had.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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