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• So, in a sense, he can be forgiven for his up-and-down play in Game 2.
  — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 8 May 2025
• For her, the first time can be forgiven, but the betrayal stings.
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 24 Mar. 2025
• You can be forgiven if Justin Brazeau was not on your radar at this time last year.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 30 Aug. 2024
• Poor Joe Biden can be forgiven for not quite knowing what hit him.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 12 July 2024
• Hardman can be forgiven for the lapse after a season that must have seemed like a fever dream.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• Use this calculator to see how much of your student loan debt can be forgiven.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• So they can be forgiven for trying to get by without explosive weapons.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2026
• Given Kevin and Liam's age, 2, Laine can be forgiven for this lapse.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
• However, we can be forgiven for feeling the loss of something that’s been part of our history for so many years.
  — Bob Roepke, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
• Readers can be forgiven for thinking that the movement had reversed itself.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
• Cynthia Nixon can be forgiven for mixing up iconic brunette Kristins.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2025
• White Sox fans can be forgiven for not having a ton of hope that things are really getting better for their team.
  — Jared Wyllys, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
• Prospective investors can be forgiven for having little idea about what they’re being asked to support.
  — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
• To an extent, analysts can be forgiven for forgetting these facts.
  — Joshua Shifrinson, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2023
• But considering what's been packed into the rugged smartphone, perhaps all this can be forgiven.
  — New Atlas, 19 Feb. 2025
• But while some bad behaviour can be forgiven and worked out, there are friendship deal-breakers that would make most of us pull the plug forever.
  — Eve Warlow, refinery29.com, 19 Mar. 2024
• Schwartz can be forgiven for mistaking Vance’s views for Catholicism.
  — Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
• Not really, but form can be forgiven for outpacing function in this instance.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
• But that can be forgiven because of just how impressively the performers commit to their bits.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
• In one light, Napoli can be forgiven its precipitous decline this season.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• More than two centuries later, however, you can be forgiven for thinking lawmakers have no role in war and peace issues.
  — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
• The hope for the new repayment program is that some student loan debt can be forgiven more slowly but without interest getting out of hand.
  — Ella Sherman, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
• How much can be forgiven because Mark didn’t know the woman counseling him at work was his wife (or, at least, his Outie’s wife)?
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Feb. 2025
• In an interview earlier this year, Putin said that leaders must be able to forgive, but that not everything can be forgiven.
  — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2023
• As the fourth member of the nine-woman supergroup to record her own album, Chaeyoung can be forgiven for taking her time with her debut.
  — Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
• Still those moments can be forgiven as the story unfurls, revealing that Miles, with his new challenges, remains a hero worth rooting for.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
• When riots are breaking out over disco records and satellites are falling randomly from the sky, people can be forgiven for wanting a little less chaos in their lives.
  — Matt Bai, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
• But people not involved in biology can be forgiven for asking whether any of it can actually make a difference.
  — Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2025
• It is uttered in an accent that is not particularly Texan, but that misstep can be forgiven because so much else about the moment works.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2026
• To an extent, the College Board can be forgiven for acceding to student preferences.
  — Editorial, Boston Herald, 9 Sep. 2025