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forgive

[fer-giv] / fərˈgɪv /


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The food alone made the day’s mileage seem like a bargain: octopus in Galicia, Arzúa-Ulloa cheese from a farmers market or milk-fed lamb that made me forgive every hill in Castilla y León.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

And a brother who is not in the mood to forgive... for now.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Now, however, I am a senior citizen who can look at events with the benefit of perspective and hindsight, and thus I have decided to forgive Don Nelson.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

My colleague Spencer Jakab wrote last week about why investors seem to forgive fallen investing stars.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

He could never forgive the sea for what it had done.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

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

—So maybe you’re blaming yourself for something that Rob forgives you for.

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper

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

Joan then told Jacob she forgave him, and offered to give a reference to help him turn his life around.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2026

He forgave this punctuation only in his mother’s letters where a row of five indicated a jolly good joke.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The defeat was Hearts' first at home in 15 months and supporters can be forgiven for expecting more from a side assembled with the aid of lauded recruitment tool Jamestown Analytics.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

But what’s happened since is so shocking that you’d be forgiven for wondering if Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski had been cloned in a lab at MIT.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

You could be forgiven for thinking Christopher Nolan doesn’t give much thought to what the audience wants.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

In other versions of income-driven repayment, borrowers could have their loans forgiven after 20 or 25 years.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

But it was a relief, to see that Ben seemed like he’d truly forgiven her.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

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

Nancy wasn’t as forgiving of her husband’s critics as Henry was.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

And I appreciate the frank and forgiving light the play sheds on long-term marriage.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Frozen puff pastry is wonderfully forgiving, provided you remember that butter prefers to stay cool.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

Rasheed regarded the Taliban with a forgiving, affectionate kind of bemusement, as one might regard an erratic cousin prone to unpredictable acts of hilarity and scandal.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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