Forget
Forget verb - To be unable to recall or think of.
Work
Work verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Accounts by people who knew Schubert confirm that he was a Workaholic: friends would visit him at home and he'd look up from composing, say a friendly hello and then go back to work and forget that they were there.
Source: Music / Franz Schubert -
The next episode, The Squid and the Coconut, has a plot where Tori and Robbie must work at Nozu after they forget their wallets and can't pay a bill for their food.
Source: Work Off the Debt - Synopsis: Set after the Wishology trilogy, the stories work off the premises that someone didn't forget when Jorgen wiped everyone's memories afterwards.
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Work and Forget. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/forget/work
Forget & Work. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/forget/work>.
Work or Forget. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/forget/work.
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