forsake

If Ms. Josephson wants her students to forsake communities, she needs to convince them that their lives as successful individuals will be better than their lives as successful members of the collective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

But Iran's governing football body has accused Australia of kidnapping the players and forcing them to forsake their home nation against their will.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 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

I sang it over and over and the stars came out — “Do not forsake me, my sister, my sheep, Slumber ye gently and heal in thy sleep.”

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

It had a touch of sonic algae, all the better to hide the gold that glimmers in it and from which a ring can be fashioned with supernatural powers to anyone who forsakes love.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2024

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

In the process, Serse forsakes his betrothed, Amastre, who spends much of the opera fulminating while dressed as a man.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2022

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

As a young college graduate, Mr. Whitworth forsook a promising career as a jazz trumpeter to do a different kind of improvisation as a journalist.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 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

“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

Anguished and alone, Nick is similarly cast away, seemingly cursed to spend the rest of his days forsaken in his hometown, now a foreign land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

Why have so many of us forsaken the remedial power of language?

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2023

He would feel himself forsaken; his love rejected: he would suffer; perhaps grow desperate.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

"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

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

Finally, she is forced to choose between forsaking her sense of safety and success and risking it all to embrace her truth.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023

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

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya