forsake

“We believe that this was a blessing from God—proof that the Lord does not forsake us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Even after its massive expenditures, Microsoft recently said its cloud-computing capacity was so constrained that it had to forsake external cloud sales to run its own operations.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

The teaching that God will “never leave or forsake you” is found multiple times in the Bible.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024

“We will not. … San Francisco, beautiful San Francisco, though others forsake you, we will always be your friend.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2023

Peace then seemed to forsake our hut and I could hear my husband and children moving restlessly in their sleep and muttering, whether from hunger or fear I do not know.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

One of these is Charles G. Koch’s 2015 book, “Good Profit,” an example of what happens when a billionaire adopts Alger’s preachy moralizing but forsakes the narrative of mobility that made him compelling.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

It’s not just that Kumar differentiates his protagonist with a fictional name and fictional novels, but that he largely forsakes plot, spending more time melding journalism into his work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

We agreed to disagree that my favorite Nolan film, “Interstellar,” forsakes emotion for an intricate plot.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2020

Director X’s “Superfly” transplants the 1972 Blaxploitation classic from Harlem streets to suburban Atlanta mansions, flips Curtis Mayfield’s soul score for Future’s hip-hop soundtrack and forsakes the original’s politically charged grit for shallow music-video indulgence.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2018

There was a dignity to her grief and an acceptance of the fait accompli—the fatalism that the pilot’s wife must beget whenever her mate forsakes her for his aircraft.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Hook frequently forsook food for the cat poop he always seemed to find on our lawn and in our backyard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Later, he forsook arts cinema to become a highly bankable commercial actor, as at home in comedy as in drama.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2021

“American spray paint companies basically forsook graffiti in the ’90s,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2020

But then, after a single term, she became pregnant and forsook academia.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020

And for thee I hungered and forsook my bed.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

Now that they’ve forsaken the last obstacle to selling out entirely, they will likely lose many more.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

Among the indignities a newly vulnerable Mickey suffers, each one spurts out of a stuttering printer and flops to the floor, forsaken.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025

He goes on to say they were "looking forward to a day scampering" and made the decision to leave their packs because they spent two days "lugging them up this God forsaken valley".

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025

Henley’s current lawyer, Dan Petrocelli, said in an emailed statement that the attorney-client privilege that had previously shielded some of the communications “is a foundational guardrail in our justice system” that should rarely be forsaken.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

He was not a member of that forsaken elect.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

"I think Cam is a one-major guy if you go to LIV because you are forsaking your competitiveness for money," Clayton told me in 2023.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

It also added a neon sign and then subtracted it, eventually forsaking much of its original design as owners and managers came and went.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025

Even more than an internal feeling, truly great art produces new conversations, and this one about how to create without forsaking yourself in the process is only just beginning.

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025

Now, 108 years later, the latest incarnation of that league – the PAC 12 – may be fading into sports history as Washington joins several other universities in forsaking the venerable West Coast athletic collective.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

For all I may be forsaking, he’s giving up a good deal more: the possibility of having more wives than one, for instance.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver