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forego

[fawr-goh, fohr-] / fɔrˈgoʊ, foʊr- /


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Lemonis, a regular on Fox Business Network, said the decision to forego business in California wasn’t political, but rather a move to protect employees and customers.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 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

It’s remarkable how much future benefit people will forego for a little instant gratification.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

Medical exemptions are also easier to police, since states can require licensed doctors to explain why each child has a legitimate need to forego vaccination.

From Slate Dec. 9, 2025

Perhaps, I thought, I should forego the nonsense of rhyme.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

That ultimately led to Sorsby foregoing his final college season with the intention of entering the NFL’s supplemental draft this summer.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 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

The foregoing should not be read as a call for movement building to the exclusion of reform work.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

If that makes the outcome seem like a foregone conclusion, it ain’t necessarily so, thanks to Labour’s laborious internal democratic process.

From Salon May 12, 2026

Game 1 illustrated that it’s more like a foregone conclusion.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 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

In aggregate, families with children under the age of 5 lose about $134 billion a year in the form of foregone earnings and expenses.

From Barron's Feb. 11, 2026

Above it a portrait of some foregone officer in a crumbling frame.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

The former Rainier Beach star played at Yakima Valley College after graduating high school, but forewent a Division I career due to eligibility concerns and eventually joined the G League.

From Seattle Times Jun. 25, 2022

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

I’d read birth stories, for instance, from women who forewent the epidural and bragged that their children were consequently “so aware” and scored “perfect 10′s” on the Apgar.

From Salon May 7, 2013

Dead are Abdulmelik and those who forewent him, and Omar also will die, and those who come after him.'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by Payne, John



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