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forfeited

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However, there’s also a distinct danger in taking too short a ride, because if you’re not satisfied when you return, you might be tempted to take a much longer ride the next day, thus forfeiting any time you may have saved.

The Thanksgiving sheet-pan planPosey came to Washington about 1770 as forfeited property used to secure a debt owed Washington by his profligate friend and neighbor John Posey.

If officials only consider a “static picture” of a market, “then we risk forfeiting the benefits of competition that could arise in the future.”

From Fortune

As food writer Dave Infante points out in his newsletter, it’s difficult to call that position a “job,” considering that it includes no health care coverage and asks hirees to forfeit any IP ownership of their work.

From Vox

It wasn’t just worries over paying mortgages or forfeiting the prestige of the job.

He forfeited any real chance of winning American Jewish voters when he chose Ryan, says Peter Beinart.

WINNER(S) MUST ATTEND THE PRIZE CEREMONY IN NEW YORK ON JUNE 20, 2012 OR ALL PRIZES WILL BE FORFEITED.

WINNER MUST CLAIM OTHER PRIZES WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE CEREMONY OR ANY PRIZE NOT CLAIMED WILL BE FORFEITED.

The solution to the puzzle may be to admit that the GOP has forfeited 2012 before the general election even starts.

Recently I found myself wondering how much money I forfeited by working for less than male peers during my years at the Times.

Whatever servant had not slept in the house the previous night forfeited his right to the money.

Capitulation of the city of Canton, which had forfeited previous stipulations with the British and resumed hostilities.

On his return to France he became a statesman, but was suspected of some political heresies, which forfeited his life.

At the end of a year, by non-payment, they forfeited the mortgage, and the legal title to the property passed to Hide.

She had forfeited her rank, that she accepted humbly as a proper punishment, ardently hoping it would be found sufficient.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to forfeited, such as: absent, adrift, disoriented, hidden, invisible, and misplaced.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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