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forget

[fer-get] / fərˈgɛt /




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He urged the public not to forget the tragedy, calling for such disasters never to happen again.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

First of all she is human, let's not forget that.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

She also feared she would forget her New York roots and wanted to “keep it real,” she quips.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

People want to “set it and forget it,” but then they actually do forget it.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Something I could use to forget about the mess of the last few hours.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

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

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

In no time at all he forgets little pebbly creeks and apple trees so old they lay their branches along the ground and you have to reach down or stoop to pick the fruit.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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

Kate forgat her leg, and Jack his mowes, and all we, stag and hunters alike, ran to the gallery window for to gaze.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

At thowghts ov ivverlastin pains, An’ bein bund iv endless chains, Mah bleead, like ice, ran thruff mah veins Wi’ shivrin dreead; Ah cudden’t sleep, an’ Ah forgat Te eat mah breead.

From Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect by John Castillo

There I lay down and went to sleep before long, but deemed I heard no little talk going on betwixt Anna and the guest ere I forgat it all.

From The Sundering Flood by May Morris

Item, cross-garters of scarlet—how’s that?” quoth Ned, scratching his forehead with a pencil: “I must have forgat the price o’ them.

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

It’s possible that they forgot prior generosity and focused on your “sorry, no.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

In preparing for the premiere of “860,” which runs until Jan. 3, Crystal recalled a brief moment where he forgot Reiner was gone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Recently, he forgot where TCM was on his cable box.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"For everyone that I haven't sent back money to, I just forgot, feel free to double request me."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

For Betsie’s sake I bought plants for every windowsill, but I forgot to water them and they died.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

For Coimbra, it is difficult to grasp that the pontiff is coming to "a neighborhood as humble as this one, in a forgotten corner of the world."

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

However this woeful period unfolds, it is unlikely Martinez's recklessness will be forgotten.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Looking a little like a forgotten McConaughey cousin?

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

All the adoptive-parents books Jonah had ever seen acted like there was one commandment Moses had forgotten to bring down from Mount Sinai: tell adopted kids the truth.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

"I am slowly forgetting all the tricks," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The member of the Groundlings main company has made guest appearances throughout the year with the Joes, sometimes catching themselves watching in admiration and forgetting they were in the show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 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 more interesting question is what remains after that forgetting takes place.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 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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