forsaking
present participle offorsakeliteraryorformal
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These attachments were not infrequently given as the reason for postponing orforsakingplans to emigrate.
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The small suburb, conveniently located on a transport crossroad, turned into an urban centre of finance, commerce and manufacturing, graduallyforsakingits 'garden city' characteristics.
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One approach is to aggressively expand the innate feature set to account for all phonetically natural classes, whileforsakingunnatural classes.
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Are agent researchersforsakingrelevance for rigor?
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People areforsakingtheir farms because no market can be found for their fruit and wines.
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That is happening in the educational world at this moment, and it isforsakingall our history.
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By having these requirements in primary legislation, we would beforsakingany flexibility to meet information needs which may change over time.
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Tonight we areforsakingand making destitute a plantation.
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It meansforsakingthe cause.
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It appears that some people areforsakingthe reality of sharing in political power and influence for what seems to be the façade of resentment and demagoguery.
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Since doctors seem to beforsakingconventional treatment for prescription by telephone, the practice could develop systematically over the years and might not be just an emergency procedure.
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He should not be termed a coward, forforsakinghis wife.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Going to such heights such asforsakinghis family's wishes to keep them content.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They were anti-naturalistic in content and style,forsakingexternal drama for a symbolic expression of the inner life of the characters.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Baptism of the polygamously married converts without theirforsakingthe second wife.
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