forbear

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Recent Examples of forbear As a new generation sloughed off the integrationist dreams of their Civil Rights forbears in favor of the Black Power Movement’s call for self-determination, Baraka renegotiated his position as a white literary darling and embraced a racial pride reinforced by righteous anger. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025 The Commission has never reversed a decision to forbear in this situation. Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2024 Tuesday’s proposal makes the same commitment, the people said, forbearing from 26 provisions of Title II and more than 700 other agency rules that could be seen as intrusive. Brian Fung, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023 The limitation of unanimous consent agreements is that on matters of controversy, senators are not going to mutually agree to forbear. Jay Cost, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021 So, if a person is enacting their right to resistance, then bystanders have an obligation to forbear and not to interfere. TheWeek, 12 Apr. 2020 But crucially, the FCC did not forbear from a few parts of Title II that protect consumers in other ways. Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 12 July 2017

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“Forbear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forbear. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

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