Forget
Forget verb - To be unable to recall or think of.
Scan
Scan verb - To look over closely (as for judging quality or condition).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Furthermore, the data you scan is not stored anywhere, so if you forget the enemy's elemental affinties, you'll have to scan them again, unless you decide to jot down the necessary information.
Source: Enemy Scan - And let's not forget the episode "Inheritance," where Data finds out that his "mother," Juliana, is an android, with a mind based on a synaptic scan of Noonian Soong's dead wife's brain.
Source: Brain Uploading -
At one point Sherlock Holmes did his trademark Sherlock Scan on a man and said that he had once been in a close relationship he was later eager to forget.
Source: Embarrassing Tattoo
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Scan and Forget. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/forget/scan
Forget & Scan. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/forget/scan>.
Scan or Forget. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/forget/scan.
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