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[fer-get] / fərˈgɛt /




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"And just like with any miracle... you just can't forget about it, because it's simply impossible to forget," he added, gazing up at the Virgin.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

“I’m like, how do people forget the background of this woman?”

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

"Because it was our language. That half hour made us forget everything else."

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

But, he adds, people often forget that this apparently low figure is a “real” yield, meaning it comes on top of any inflation.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

But the goal is to forget all the bad things.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

That is, until Tom forgets his jacket inside the bookstore.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

Olympic hockey team’s win over the Soviets in 1980—is a triumph tattooed on the national memory, though the memory frequently forgets that the game wasn’t shown until three hours after the puck dropped.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 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

"The system forgets you; that is the beauty of it," says Anadol.

From Barron's Jun. 19, 2026

The broodiness lifts from Dad’s eyes and Jonah forgets that he’s angry, as I knew he would.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

"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 Caine, Hall, Sir

Truly, I forgat the same at that time; and now I have not the money to mine hand.

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

Then, as the book saith, Sir Launcelot began to resort unto Queen Guenever again, and forgat the promise that he made in the quest.

From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by Cutler, U. Waldo

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 Holt, Emily Sarah

So sweet was the tone of the bell that no man heard it but he straightway forgat all that aforetime had troubled him.

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee

That will help you realize things like this faucet doesn’t get hot water or I forgot to put an ice cream scoop in the kitchen.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Marine Corps officer from Dayton, Ohio, who had bought three tickets on a whim and promptly forgot about them.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

We were so excited to assign blame for the Platner fiasco in the first few entries that we forgot to offer anything forward-looking.

From Slate Jul. 11, 2026

I never forgot how lucky I am to be here considering the horrors she experienced during World War II and her ordeals trying to give us a good life.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

The moose forgot he was surrounded by growling dogs.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Ahead of that meeting, the PM said: "For 40 years, power and resources have been sucked into the centre, and too many communities have felt forgotten, without the attention and investment they deserve."

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Do you sometimes buy books that you’ve forgotten you already have?

From Salon Jul. 23, 2026

In a closing monologue, Odysseus looks ahead to the collapse of the Bronze Age, imagining a future in which his world and everything that happened to him will be forgotten.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The ensemble, a stylistic laboratory, essentially revived the forgotten French Baroque repertoire when launched by William Christie in France in 1979.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

I’d completely forgotten the photographs were today, if indeed I ever knew.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

“When you hear a song a million times, you kind of start forgetting what it’s even about,” Kittrell says.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

"I want to see a stress response, excitement, emotional anxiety, fear, shouting, forgetting to breathe, perhaps breathing too much, all of the above."

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

Setting and forgetting your student-loan payments could soon give you a big discount.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

He seemed to be in danger of forgetting the seriousness of the occasion.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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