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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misremembering
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Most technology investments solve the first problem while entirely ignoring the second.—
Aaron Levine,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026 -
But when Spurs are trailing, Romero often abandons his defensive position and goes hunting for the ball, seemingly ignoring tactical instructions.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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Our findings also imply that disregarding venture initiatives can be risky.—
Serguei Netessine,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
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Bolton, 67, was charged with one felony count of mutilation of election material and one misdemeanor count of disregarding election code, according to the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
27 May 2026
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Crichton goes to a lot of effort to give plausible explanation to the harvesting and recombination of dinosaur DNA, and the mistakes that the involved human beings make are ones of ego, greed, and—more or less—neglecting to double-check their homework before turning it in.—
Ian Mackenzie,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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The organizations that struggle will be the ones that chase technical sophistication while neglecting the people who apply it.—
Usman Shuja,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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My answer is that the alternative — silence, forgetting, the regime’s preferred outcome — is worse.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
27 May 2026
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Contrary to popular belief, Holmgren rejects the cliché that the greatest teams push egos aside, forgetting individual goals in the quest for a Larry O’Brien Trophy.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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On Sunday, May 3, a United Boeing 767-400 coming from Venice, Italy, came into contact with the pole while passing over a major roadway at a very low elevation on its final approach, the carrier confirmed in a statement shared with PEOPLE.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
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The incident occurred when the plane was passing over the southbound lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
4 May 2026
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But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means.—
Nick Laird,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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The subtext to the litigation is Oakley’s personal grievance against Dolan, whom the ex-player has long criticized, in part for slighting him compared to other Knicks legends.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Misremembering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misremembering. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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