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

Perhaps I’m too old, too stodgy, or even too hairy to completely forsake the shirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

Adult men should survive without requiring women to forsake our own goals and desires in order to serve them.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2024

“Do you forsake the parrot and all his lies?”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

In pursuit of his mad crush, the hypermasculine Hudson, Randy now forsakes his beloved campy theater friends, cutting his hair and taking up sports as the buff, tough Dell.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

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

“Coppelia” Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet performs the classic comedic fable about a young man who forsakes his lady-love for a mad doctor’s life-size dancing doll.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 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

Instead, Latinos forsook movement politics in this election and seem poised to do the same in the future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

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

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

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020

Starting with the 1967-68 expansion that doubled it from six to 12 teams, the NHL often was so busy trying to grow that it forsook quality for quantity.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2018

And for thee I hungered and forsook my bed.

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

Underwater and forsaken, American homeowners watched as their earth-toned Tuscan kitchens and quirky bits of ornament made their homes slow to move in a glutted market.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 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

But Ms. Holmes — who now goes by Liz and has forsaken her trademark black turtleneck and even the deep voice she once used — spoke to Amy Chozick for The Times.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2023

Thus had her mother lived and died; and she had often been brought low, but she had never been forsaken.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

So why would Walter consider forsaking some of those substantial financial resources?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026

"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

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

He said a schism would amount to forsaking the rich spiritual legacy of the UMC in Africa and would severe its valuable international bonds.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

“We are not forsaking you, mama,” Andrew said.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya