How to Use can be forgiven in a Sentence
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Hardman can be forgiven for the lapse after a season that must have seemed like a fever dream.
—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
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Use this calculator to see how much of your student loan debt can be forgiven.
—Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
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But that can be forgiven because of just how impressively the performers commit to their bits.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
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The Long Hangover In one light, Napoli can be forgiven its precipitous decline this season.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
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The hope for the new repayment program is that some student loan debt can be forgiven more slowly but without interest getting out of hand.
—Ella Sherman, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
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Still those moments can be forgiven as the story unfurls, revealing that Miles, with his new challenges, remains a hero worth rooting for.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
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In an interview earlier this year, Putin said that leaders must be able to forgive, but that not everything can be forgiven.
—Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2023
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In one light, Napoli can be forgiven its precipitous decline this season.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
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And perhaps they can be forgiven, after the spectacle of 15 House speaker votes and a bare GOP majority in open disarray.
—wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
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To an extent, analysts can be forgiven for forgetting these facts.
—Joshua Shifrinson, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2023
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One can be forgiven for getting the impression that a whistleblower is a mythical creature of sorts, a person predestined for the righteous cause.
—Gordon Schnell, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2024
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As with his film scores, the music can be forgiven for losing something when separated from the visual it was created to accompany.
—Al Shipley, Spin, 3 Oct. 2023
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After the early aughts antics, the recent second act as rom-com star, and everything in between, you can be forgiven for forgetting that Lindsay Lohan was a supremely talented child actor.
—Vogue, 17 July 2023
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After two seemingly conflicting earnings reports this week, investors can be forgiven some confusion.
—Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
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Dependent on immediate audience reaction, every few seconds, stand up comedians can be forgiven for insecurity.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
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