forget
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"We love Diljit and have been to all his shows in the UK. This was something else, a moment in time we won't forget being a part of."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
We should never forget Sept. 11 and its victims, but America’s fever has to break.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
She casts a spell that her daughters forget about magic and never practice again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
I will never forget the confusion, and then the sheer terror, of that day.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
After I married, Dr. Kane would not let me refer to my old life—he wanted me to forget it.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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
That is, until Tom forgets his jacket inside the bookstore.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
No matter how big he becomes, he never forgets where he came from.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
There’s a great accidental gag in a cut bit from the original MTV pilot when a deputy pulls up to arrest Knoxville and forgets to put her car in park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
"And ye hev forgat yer sacred office to call me nicknames," answered Matthew, nothing abashed.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
The words of the good father ended, new ioy surprised the heart of Iulietta, who was so attentiue to his talke as she forgat no one poynct of hir lesson.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
From Parish Papers by Norman Macleod
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
She well-nigh forgat that God might have some better thing in store for her, to the which He was leading her all the time, along this weary road.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
The thermostat had been set to 71 degrees Fahrenheit and a worker forgot to turn off the air-conditioning.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 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
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
Allen met with Parton years ago and said she never forgot her roots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
“She’s down by that old slough. I guess when I saw the monkey I got so excited I forgot all about her. I’m sorry. I’ll go get her.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The discovery raises the possibility that other coral ecosystems along West Africa may have been overlooked, forgotten, or never documented in the first place.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The impoverished country has long been at war in a forgotten corner of the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Those who saw this show haven’t forgotten it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
While the country was knocked sideways by the Sept. 11 attacks, I was a closeted kid alone in a new city, and football did something for me that I have never forgotten.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
“She’s the forgotten one, an’t she? Our mother—she saw it in her palm, didn’t she?”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
“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
Whereas the poem ends with order restored, the film leaves history caught in an endless cycle of collapse, rebirth and forgetting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
"I have been lucky as a player. I have enjoyed happy moments, today is not such a moment. We must accept it without forgetting everything we experienced."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
But giving this absolute unit a wide berth has become more challenging as his viral fame grows, because humans keep crowding Neil, getting dangerously close and perhaps forgetting that he is a wild animal.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Emma’s project of forgetting Mr. Elton for a while made her rather sorry to find, when they had all taken their places, that he was close to her.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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