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Real friends might forgive Misty when she lets them down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"Jesus teaches us to forgive and I have, but what we are asking for is accountability."

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Clemency, meaning mercy or leniency, lets the president reduce the punishment for, or even forgive, federal crimes.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

But this is also a story about literal class warfare, one in which those who oppose the privileges of blood are unwilling to forgive the sins of the fathers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“Yes. Another stolen child. A fellow slave. She helped me heal and helped me forgive, and when the time came, she helped me leave.”

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

About 50% of borrowers moved into the IBR plan, an older plan that caps monthly payments at 10% or 15% of discretionary income and forgives remaining balances after 20 or 25 years of payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

There is also a program for public-service employees like teachers that forgives any remaining balance after 10 years.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

The victim, who was not named, is still recovering and learning to trust but forgives the family in an act of faith, the statement said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2024

There's something magnanimous about the way Bon forgives his friend without condition, or because he knows that what they've gone through forces people to say things and think things when they know better.

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

I called Grandma to apologize when the ReelTok interview came out, and she says she forgives me.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

“I don’t know how you’re doing it,” Bustillos’ mother said after Gonzalez told Bustillos she forgave him for the crash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

She left behind a small stone to honor the dead and forgave herself for not having found a way to save her parents, murdered on arrival at Auschwitz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

The speech was exploitative, but not demeaning, and the public forgave Nixon.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

In response, Battle’s daughter not only forgave Burton, but has become an active advocate for his clemency.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

Count on James to think things through, Dicey thought, and forgave him for his lack of persistence the day before and for being careless and falling.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Loans can also be forgiven at any period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

McBurnie, not so much the prodigal son but now the forgiven one, had that big chance six minutes into the new half - the one he would have dreamed about.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The Dodgers could be forgiven for believing it will all work out in the end.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Investors returning from the Labor Day break could be forgiven for wondering if their eyes were deceiving them, but yes, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were significantly worse than the S&P 500.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Had Lupin forgiven him, then, for the terrible things he had said when they had last met?

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

"We all make mistakes, we all forget things. It's not the end of the world. If you can go back and make a humour of it the audience are quite forgiving and accepting."

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The point is to notice that stuffing, stripped of its ceremonial duties, is an exceptionally forgiving way to turn bread and whatever else you have into dinner.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Courts are sometimes more forgiving of burdens on speech when the real focus of a law is conduct, and when any restriction on speech is minor and incidental.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

The cancers Merck and Moderna are pursuing next are less forgiving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

I went further than forgiving the clerk, I accepted her as a fellow victim of the same puppeteer.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou