forsake
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But Iran's governing football body has accused Australia of kidnapping the players and forcing them to forsake their home nation against their will.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
I can’t be the only 57-year-old who would forsake both for six uninterrupted hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
It’s the one noticeable design misstep in Daniel’s production, but it reflects the character’s desire to become part of a world that has always seemed ready to forsake him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
The teaching that God will “never leave or forsake you” is found multiple times in the Bible.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024
“Say ‘I forsake my sister Jude,’” Nicasia tells her.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
One of these is Charles G. Koch’s 2015 book, “Good Profit,” an example of what happens when a billionaire adopts Alger’s preachy moralizing but forsakes the narrative of mobility that made him compelling.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
Communion’s corn chowder forsakes the usual restaurant goal of consistency in favor of homestyle evolution.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2021
Defensive lineman Aaron Donald said he forsakes the sweet treats to keep his “four-pack” abs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2018
Director X’s “Superfly” transplants the 1972 Blaxploitation classic from Harlem streets to suburban Atlanta mansions, flips Curtis Mayfield’s soul score for Future’s hip-hop soundtrack and forsakes the original’s politically charged grit for shallow music-video indulgence.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2018
There was a dignity to her grief and an acceptance of the fait accompli—the fatalism that the pilot’s wife must beget whenever her mate forsakes her for his aircraft.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
As a young college graduate, Mr. Whitworth forsook a promising career as a jazz trumpeter to do a different kind of improvisation as a journalist.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Later, he forsook arts cinema to become a highly bankable commercial actor, as at home in comedy as in drama.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2021
But then, after a single term, she became pregnant and forsook academia.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020
Starting with the 1967-68 expansion that doubled it from six to 12 teams, the NHL often was so busy trying to grow that it forsook quality for quantity.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2018
“The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago,” said I, speaking as seriously as he had done.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
It’s a fleeting tableau, but it reveals the whole story: even the most forsaken creation reaches for connection the moment he’s given something warm to hold in his hands.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025
He goes on to say they were "looking forward to a day scampering" and made the decision to leave their packs because they spent two days "lugging them up this God forsaken valley".
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
An older woman looks at him and straightaway diagnoses his problem: “Have you forsaken your soul?” she asks.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
Not only have electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles replaced gas-guzzling cars, but many people have forsaken car-ownership altogether, in favor of much more economic and widely available solutions like e-bikes, robo-taxis and public transit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2023
He would feel himself forsaken; his love rejected: he would suffer; perhaps grow desperate.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
"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
Now, 108 years later, the latest incarnation of that league – the PAC 12 – may be fading into sports history as Washington joins several other universities in forsaking the venerable West Coast athletic collective.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
She turns to me, forsaking her view for a moment.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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