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forgetting

  • present participle of forget.

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Forgetting how the extinguisher worked, she handed it to me.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

Ms. Smith is the author of “Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families and the Search for a Cure.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

At Saturday's concert, F4 also performed Mayday's The Song of Laughter and Forgetting with the rock group.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2025

Forgetting to declare a bag of frog embryos to customs agents at the airport, work materials for her research at Harvard University.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2025

Forgetting their fatigue and frustration, Ma and Ba began to run through the woods.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin