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verb

past participle of forego
as in preceded
to go or come before in time if the sparse crowds are any indication of the public's interest in the presidential candidate, then his reputation obviously foregoes him

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Adjective
  • Except, After have very much invented something, albeit something built from past materials.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
  • This can be true in the AI era, but AI will also enable us to break free from these constraints, creating tools that aren’t bound by past methodologies.
    Andy Boyd, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • The search for reinforcements — whether through free agency or the draft — preceded the Philadelphia Eagles delivering a knockout blow on Kansas City’s three-peat.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Clemson Defensive coordinator Tom Allen The domino that preceded Penn State’s hiring of Knowles was Clemson luring Allen away from the Nittany Lions.
    Ralph D. Russo, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • It was being painted as an out-of-touch, arcane, and self-important social institution from a bygone era, and was doing very little to dispel that characterization.
    David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Gen was stupidly tall and although her shoes were falling apart, her relaxed, graceful pace made Emily think of paintings of gentlemen from bygone eras, the kind on paperbacks like The Age of Innocence.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Even without his erstwhile power-pitching ability, Kimbrel hopes to compensate with experience.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • As the group’s drummer and erstwhile bassist when Rastegar was unavailable, Wood came into permanent possession of the second chair.
    Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Avoid tall, isolated trees or other elevated objects.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025
  • Similarly, SpaceX is hugely dependent on direct grants and regulatory permitting, clearances, and partnership from NASA and other federal agencies.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • The second of two debates includes Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor and mayoral front-runner, who will appear side by side with Zohran Mamdani, the thirty-three-year-old democratic-socialist assemblyman who has solidified his hold on second place in the polls.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
  • James Young, 53, a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Los Angeles, faces up to 29 years in prison after prosecutors amended a criminal complaint to include several counts like assault with a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon and causing a hit-and-run accident.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 June 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, Trump took a number of potshots at his sometime opponent during a Tuesday press conference, less than 48 hours after ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2025
  • The fang gang present themselves as yearning European folk enthusiasts and later as jigging fiends and sometime metalheads.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Four formerly broke, high school dropouts including a onetime standup comedian and line cook, rapper Drake and the son of an oil billionaire are all winners in Dave's sale to Roark Capital.
    Jemima McEvoy, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • Musk wasted no time hitting back at Trump, slamming his onetime political idol in what amounted to a live-online running commentary on his X platform.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025
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“Foregone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foregone. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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