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forgo
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forgo as in:  forgo the benefit

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You will have to forgo alcohol.
forgo = do without
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    She decided to forgo her senior season to enter the WNBA.
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    When an apparently healthy person, especially a healthy young man, elects to forgo the enticements of the flesh, it shocks us, and we leer.  (source)
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    We all agreed that Soraya and I would forgo the Shirini-khori.  (source)
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    Another night Dub and Joe fought Spitz and made him forego the punishment they deserved.  (source)
    forego = do without
    unconventional spelling: Many think this is better spelled forgo and that this spelling should only be used to mean go before.
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    Filch looked yearningly up the stairs, right through Harry, who could see that he was very reluctant to forgo the chance of cornering Peeves.  (source)
    forgo = do without (miss)
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    With limited instruction, he had perfected the art of withholding his insights, forgoing his witticisms, curbing the use of metaphors, similes, and analogies—in essence, exercising every muscle of poetic restraint.  (source)
    forgoing = doing without
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    Couldn't he have forgone a weekend in Vegas?†  (source)
    forgone = done without
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    She left the pearls in place, changed back into the black high-heeled shoes, once more retouched her hair and makeup, forwent another dab of scent and then, as she opened the door, gave out a shriek of terror.†  (source)
    forwent = did without
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    If she refuses, she returns to this life to complete the task, but she forgoes glory.†  (source)
    forgoes = does without
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    One day you may forego those striped pants for solid blue ones, just as Martina Crowe did today!†  (source)
    forego = do without
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    You will forgo comforts; you will live by duty alone.  (source)
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    ...forgoing my normal legal fee of forty-two hundred dollars.†  (source)
    forgoing = doing without
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    I would have forgone killing had that been possible, and so I took care of this early, and perfunctorily, as did Claudia; and as it neared time for us to leave, I was alone in the flat, waiting for her.†  (source)
    forgone = done without
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forego as in:  the foregoing event

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After many days, when time sufficed for the people to arrange their thoughts in reference to the foregoing scene, there was more than one account of what had been witnessed on the scaffold.  (source)
foregoing = prior
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    It was as if, after wading grimly through the almost unbearable necrology in the foregoing pages, he had come face to face with his own obituary.†  (source)
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    I wanted to prepare for the 2006 season in any way I could, and in the weeks before I made my commitment to Florida, I'd spoken to Coach Meyer about foregoing my spring baseball season at Nease to enroll early at Florida, which my homeschooling made possible.†  (source)
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    The foregoing investigation into the nature of the idea of Texas is put down as a prelude to my journeying across Texas with Charley in Rocinante.†  (source)
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    On the wedding night the bride prayed for half an hour beside the bed and then started singing hymns, so Vere departed, foregoing nuptial bliss, and for the rest of her life the poor woman had a sign above her door which read "Unloved.†  (source)
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    It would perhaps have been faintly comic had not his misplaced jealousy contained seeds of the violent, and worse ... Earlier there was a bizarre, peripheral tragedy affecting Sophie which should be recounted here if only because of the way in which it elaborates all the foregoing.†  (source)
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    To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.†  (source)
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    I triggered the laser as I reverted to pure self-preservation, foregoing any chance to regain control of his circuits.†  (source)
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    The foregoing has the ring of a biography, without the satisfaction of knowing that the hero, like Grant, lolling in his general store in Galena, is ready to be called to an intricate destiny.†  (source)
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    But even in their foregoing is their pleasure.†  (source)
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    Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life.†  (source)
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    If only life could end now—end on this tragic yet sweet vision of lost possibilities, which gave her a sense of kinship with all the loving and foregoing in the world!†  (source)
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    ...They don't seem foregoing vengeance?†  (source)
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    XLI From the foregoing events of the winter-time let us press on to an October day, more than eight months subsequent to the parting of Clare and Tess.†  (source)
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foregone as in:  a foregone conclusion

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    The candidate considers loss of that district to be a foregone conclusion.
    foregone conclusion = a result that is certain to happen
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    Above it a portrait of some foregone officer in a crumbling frame.  (source)
    foregone = former (in the past)
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    Be the foregone evil what it might, how could they doubt that their earthly lives and future destinies were conjoined when they beheld at once the material union, and the spiritual idea, in whom they met, and were to dwell immortally together; thoughts like these—and perhaps other thoughts, which they did not acknowledge or define—threw an awe about the child as she came onward.  (source)
    foregone = done in the past
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    Due to the unseasonably warm weather, they'd foregone sleeping in tents—which gave her an unparalleled view of the capital.†  (source)
    foregone = done in the past
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    'Yes,' she said absently, as if this was a foregone conclusion, and Paul supposed it was.†  (source)
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    There was the usual waiting and the important air assumed by the doctor, with which he was so familiar (resembling that which he himself assumed in court), and the sounding and listening, and the questions which called for answers that were foregone conclusions and were evidently unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that "if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything — we know indubitably how it has to be done, always in the same way for everybody alike."†  (source)
    foregone conclusions = inevitable conclusions
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    Those were foregone times.†  (source)
    foregone = done in the past
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    No point doing any actual thought: it was a foregone conclusion that Crake would have some lateral-jump solution to his own question.†  (source)
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    Then you would have foregone the pleasure of riding with me today.†  (source)
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    Two weeks earlier, on the first day of Williams's third trial, the outcome had seemed a foregone conclusion—so much so that the Savannah Morning News had announced in a weary headline, WILLIAMS FACES YET ANOTHER CONVICTION FOR MURDER.†  (source)
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    The result is foregone.†  (source)
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    I hardly had time to think about my own answer—why, it was taken to be a foregone conclusion.†  (source)
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    When the trees opened out and they reached pavement, some city corner and its streetlight, they were so cold it was foregone they should go in the nearest cafe for coffee.†  (source)
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