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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost forgetting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a situation where someone is on the verge of forgetting something but has not completely done so yet.
Example: "I was almost forgetting to send you the report, but I remembered just in time."
Alternatives: "nearly forgetting" or "close to forgetting".
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"I'm almost forgetting you're in the room". The students laughed.
"It's the anticonvenience store where everyone says hello," said Mr. Veeder, almost forgetting how chaotic it was to start up.
Well, despite long, headachy days at Colindale peering at poor-quality microfilm and almost forgetting by the end that the original was pink, that failed to happen.
We are seeing the world more or less exactly as it looked to those hardy, foolish souls on screen (and almost forgetting to notice that most of them are actors we recognize from elsewhere).
There were none of those: "Oh my God, I can't believe someone actually wrote something that incredibly funny," moments where you sit, open-mouthed, almost in shock, almost forgetting to laugh, because it's so clever, so hilarious, so bloody good.
He's up in the players' box, hugging Lendl, his girlfriend Kim and giving high fives to the rest of Team Murray, before almost forgetting to embrace his mother Judy.
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Shoot, almost forgot.
"I almost forgot.
"Oh, uh, almost forgot.
Oops, almost forgot Cristiano Ronaldo.
They almost forgot about him.
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