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forsaking



NOUN
dereliction
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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

Gov. Gavin Newsom forsaking his office to run the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 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

For all I may be forsaking, he’s giving up a good deal more: the possibility of having more wives than one, for instance.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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