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The best encounters with novels, Ms. Kanakia suggests, are those that forego line-by-line analysis or politically motivated allegory in favor of facing a reality that language can never fully contain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

But that’s not all: You would also forego anywhere from $30,000 to $50,000 in lost returns over the next 10 years, depending on how well the stock market performs over that period.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026

The Wall Street Journal reported External link over the weekend that SpaceX would forego a Mars mission in 2026, focusing on the moon instead.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

“Alternatively, noncitizens may choose not to appear and instead to forego their opportunity to pursue their claims for asylum or other relief from removal.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025

But forego, which means “go before,” has an e, as do its cousins foregone and foregoing. forward.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

“The foregoing failures constitute deliberate indifference to the unconstitutional conditions that exist in the prisons,” investigators wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

It’s how budget carriers like Consumer Cellular can pass cost savings on to their customers by foregoing large-scale infrastructure buildouts.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026

The bigger issue is that investors who stuck with staples, foregoing bigger gains in hopes they would provide a smoother ride, have been sorely mistaken.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

He agreed with Secretary Vance that to oppose it “would be foregoing an option that we could exercise in the event a peaceful solution is not in the offing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

I’m working up with the foregoing to a physical description of myself.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The good news is that America’s response did succeed in preventing a repeat of the terrorist attacks, which was far from a foregone conclusion in the days after 9/11.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

When it comes to romantic comedies, it’s not where it’s going — that’s a foregone conclusion — but how it gets there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

But Miller’s refusal to bow out wasn’t a foregone conclusion, either.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

Andrew Gilruth, chief executive of the Moorland Association, which represents landowners in upland areas in England and Wales, claimed the government's backing for the project suggested the go-ahead was "already a foregone conclusion".

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

Even Kaz had foregone his immaculately cut suit in favor of a bulky wool coat.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

While Hopkins and many of her generation forewent having children, she notes that women today show up for job interviews pregnant, take family leave and still get tenure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

But last month, after Thiessen’s stepmother and father, who are in their 70s, came down with covid, Thiessen, his wife and their children, ages 7 and 9, forewent testing.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2022

But the Seahawks felt confident enough in Eskridge that they forewent their usual strategy of trading down for more picks.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2021

Because of social distancing, the family forewent the normal rituals of grieving, including the Jewish tradition of sitting shiva.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2020

At a thoughtless age allured   By every gilded folly, we renounced   His sheltering side, and wilfully forewent   That converse which we now in vain regret.

From The Task and Other Poems by William Cowper