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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
forgo .
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Examples
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Defined as a computing device that forgoes the usual keyboard as its main input method, numerous vendors have unsuccessfully pursued this Holy Grail.
Why Tablet Computers Will Succeed Now Gary Kovacs 2010
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Defined as a computing device that forgoes the usual keyboard as its main input method, numerous vendors have unsuccessfully pursued this Holy Grail.
Why Tablet Computers Will Succeed Now Gary Kovacs 2010
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His pseudo-Caesar salad, for instance, forgoes the use of raw egg yolk but heightens the flavor by substituting blue cheese for Parmesan.
A Chef Opens His Recipe Box Aram Bakshian Jr. 2012
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If he eats a big lunch, he typically forgoes dinner for a light snack: "I try to stick to vegetables."
Work Out Hard Monday to Play Harder Saturday Jen Murphy 2011
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On the one hand, a victim can take BP's offer of short-term help for current losses and then, later, a final payment, one condition of which is that he or she forgoes the right to sue BP in the future.
Nan Aron: Will There Be Crude Justice or True Justice For Oil Spill Victims? Nan Aron 2010
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Violations can be as seemingly harmless as one employee who forgoes wearing a hairnet to far more serious issues.
City Gives Le Cirque And Gramercy Tavern 'C' Grades The Huffington Post 2011
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On the one hand, a victim can take BP's offer of short-term help for current losses and then, later, a final payment, one condition of which is that he or she forgoes the right to sue BP in the future.
Nan Aron: Will There Be Crude Justice or True Justice For Oil Spill Victims? Nan Aron 2010
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This week in Sound Bites: Conan gets a concussion, Glee gets randy, Cougar Town loses sleep, House forgoes urinals, and SNL survives The Biggest Little F-Bomb in the World.
'Sound Bites': Your favorite TV quote this week? | EW.com 2009
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By now, I'm used to unconventional style that forgoes quotation marks in favor of a starting dash.
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On the one hand, a victim can take BP's offer of short-term help for current losses and then, later, a final payment, one condition of which is that he or she forgoes the right to sue BP in the future.
Nan Aron: Will There Be Crude Justice or True Justice For Oil Spill Victims? Nan Aron 2010
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