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• Poor Joe Biden can be forgiven for not quite knowing what hit him.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 12 July 2024
• 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
• Use this calculator to see how much of your student loan debt can be forgiven.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• But while some bad behaviour can be forgiven and worked out, there are friendship deal-breakers that would make most of us pull the plug forever.
  — Eve Warlow, refinery29.com, 19 Mar. 2024
• So the writers can be forgiven for jumping the gun and indulging in a bit of fantasy football, so to speak: What would Swift’s engagement ring look like?
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2024
• But as much as Boone is going to bask at the sight of Soto hitting bombs this spring, he can be forgiven for also casting a wary eye on whoever is starting the games for him.
  — Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2024
• But that can be forgiven because of just how impressively the performers commit to their bits.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
• The Long Hangover In one light, Napoli can be forgiven its precipitous decline this season.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In one light, Napoli can be forgiven its precipitous decline this season.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• 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
• To an extent, analysts can be forgiven for forgetting these facts.
  — Joshua Shifrinson, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• After two seemingly conflicting earnings reports this week, investors can be forgiven some confusion.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
• The educators can be forgiven for offering an inappropriate analogy because absolutely nothing compares to the singular, procreative ability of a woman to conceive, nurture and give birth to a child.
  — Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2024
• Dependent on immediate audience reaction, every few seconds, stand up comedians can be forgiven for insecurity.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024