forget
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You may already have hung thicker curtains and blocked the draughts over the last couple of winters, but do not forget to switch off radiators in rooms you are not using and wrap up.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
I meet each new crisis with little more than a desire to muddle through, to patch it up well enough that I can forget about it.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Be kind to others, by all means, but don’t forget to be kind to yourself.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
One can see the TV Guide thumbnails: Woody and Matthew forget to buy Valentine’s Day gifts for their wives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Mostly, I wished Rachel would forget I’d ever told her about my secret.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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"He has no phone or wallet with him and probably forgets the name of the hotel," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Olympic hockey team’s win over the Soviets in 1980—is a triumph tattooed on the national memory, though the memory frequently forgets that the game wasn’t shown until three hours after the puck dropped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
There’s a great accidental gag in a cut bit from the original MTV pilot when a deputy pulls up to arrest Knoxville and forgets to put her car in park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
I take a tapa of rabo de toro, a stewed tail so tender it forgets it was ever muscle.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
“He forgets a lot. Like now, he forgets he’s only a young boy.”
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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But then ’gan he to talk of mine eyes, which he is ever a-praising, and after a while I forgat my disease.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
I forgat to tell you, that you must lay a Puff-paste at the bottom of the dish, before you put in the bread, and cover it with the same.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
Yet he forgat not, father as he was Of these, his absent eldest, whom he mourn’d 30 Ceaseless, and thus his speech, weeping, began.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
In the preterit some are likewise formed by a, as brake, spake, bare, share, sware, tare, ware, clave, gat, begat, forgat, and perhaps some others, but more rarely.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
So sweet was the tone of the bell that no man heard it but he straightway forgat all that aforetime had troubled him.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates
"For everyone that I haven't sent back money to, I just forgot, feel free to double request me."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“One thing she never forgot was the cafe,” De Carmo said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Rolison’s case is one of inertia; he most likely forgot about his beneficiary designation entirely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Sometimes he portrays her as a shrew, whining last year about how he’d be “in trouble” if he forgot to mention their anniversary during a speech.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
He looked so sweet and harmless that I forgot sense and stuck my finger out to him, as if he were a tame bird.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Chae, the defector, said her hope was that the North's isolated people are not one day simply forgotten by the outside world.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
South Gloucestershire Armed Forces Day put out a tribute on social media where organisers said: "His quiet bravery and his remarkable life will not be forgotten."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
And, with the museum’s dim lighting, dated technology and underutilized areas, it can feel at times as if one is wandering in a past-its-prime shopping mall or in the forgotten corner of an airport terminal.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
Those latter “second-round” effects have been largely forgotten about in recent decades because “most of those oil shocks in the last 40 years tended to be fairly short lived,” says Morgan Stanley economist Michael Gapen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
He seemed to have forgotten me and my particular problem.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The member of the Groundlings main company has made guest appearances throughout the year with the Joes, sometimes catching themselves watching in admiration and forgetting they were in the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
—Southwest pilot and pilot podcast host Max Palmer, on wealthy pilots who splurge on boats, cars and planes, forgetting about past layoffs and industry crises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
As memory scholar Paul Connerton has argued, some forms of forgetting are not failures but necessary parts of social life.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Whereas the poem ends with order restored, the film leaves history caught in an endless cycle of collapse, rebirth and forgetting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Chase climbed up the bank, trying not to berate himself for failing to save the driver and forgetting the go bag.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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