- present participle of forsake.
forsaking
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"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
It also added a neon sign and then subtracted it, eventually forsaking much of its original design as owners and managers came and went.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
Even so, losing her voice didn’t mean forsaking her songwriting, a talent that led to a resourceful strategy for a comeback.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
He bared his wrist, and offered it to me: the blood was forsaking his cheek and lips, they were growing livid; I was distressed on all hands.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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