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The best encounters with novels, Ms. Kanakia suggests, are those that forego line-by-line analysis or politically motivated allegory in favor of facing a reality that language can never fully contain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Some companies have pointed to the difficulty of complying with SEC rules as a reason to forego an IPO.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

To the state they cited frequent turnover in adjusters and demands to sign legal papers agreeing to forego future reimbursement for personal items without itemized receipts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Medical exemptions are also easier to police, since states can require licensed doctors to explain why each child has a legitimate need to forego vaccination.

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025

“Wear them with pride. And then...who knows? One day you may forego those striped pants for solid blue ones, just as Martina Crowe did today!”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

The bigger issue is that investors who stuck with staples, foregoing bigger gains in hopes they would provide a smoother ride, have been sorely mistaken.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

You are foregoing any increases in the stock market over the term of the annuity — but also hedging your bets against a severe downturn in the market.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 2026

He agreed with Secretary Vance that to oppose it “would be foregoing an option that we could exercise in the event a peaceful solution is not in the offing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

According to Kady, who has gathered opinions in Cardiff Metropolitan University's gaming society, many people are foregoing social activities to afford new game purchases and subscriptions.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025

The foregoing should not be read as a call for movement building to the exclusion of reform work.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

If that makes the outcome seem like a foregone conclusion, it ain’t necessarily so, thanks to Labour’s laborious internal democratic process.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

Game 1 illustrated that it’s more like a foregone conclusion.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Passage has gone from a foregone conclusion early in the year to a long shot, even though lawmakers hope to hold a committee vote in the next month.

From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 2026

What we know now—that the ground phase of the Gulf War proved a 100-hour testament to American martial prowess—was no foregone conclusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

But forego, which means “go before,” has an e, as do its cousins foregone and foregoing. forward.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

While Hopkins and many of her generation forewent having children, she notes that women today show up for job interviews pregnant, take family leave and still get tenure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

The former Rainier Beach star played at Yakima Valley College after graduating high school, but forewent a Division I career due to eligibility concerns and eventually joined the G League.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2022

I’d read birth stories, for instance, from women who forewent the epidural and bragged that their children were consequently “so aware” and scored “perfect 10′s” on the Apgar.

From Salon ● May 7, 2013

I earned them and forewent higher-paying attorney jobs in the private sector.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2010

As soon as he came over the vessel, he let fall the rock upon it; but the ship, having great way on her, forewent the rock, which fell into the sea with a terrible crash.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John