as in left
to cause to remain behind
forsaking most of our possessions, we evacuated just before the hurricane struck
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Throughout the history of gold panning, workers had never been abandoned in remote or forgotten areas of the jungle.—
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The buildings were abandoned as the public school system grew more welcoming of Black students, and many of the sites have been lost, historians say.—
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But here, stranded alongside Bradley Cooper (who has the same deer-in-headlights look), she’s completely lost as a Depression-era woman who goes mad after losing a child and directs her fury at a woman who had an illegitimate son with her husband years earlier.—
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Researchers hypothesize that Earhart did not crash at sea, but instead landed and was stranded on Nikumaroro Island, later perishing there.—
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The streets below were strangely empty for a weekday morning, and Madison Square Park, visible through the scaffolding, was deserted save for a few people and their pets braving the day’s frigid winds at the dog park.—
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With such a prosperous and advanced village before them, well before its time, archaeologists wondered why the site had been deserted.—
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“Forsook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forsook. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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