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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'unable to forget' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe someone who is unable to forget something that has happened. For example: She felt a deep sadness, unable to forget the traumatic experience she had endured.
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Some were unable to forget these questions.
Surely unable to forget that image, too, must be Domenech.
Some will suffer through sad holidays unable to forget those deprived of yet another year.
We were unable to forget the severity of his actions for a long time.
But our lives had not been parallel; I was unable to forget this.
"You see the kids always crying, unable to forget the frightening things they saw.
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As one colleague remarked, "he could make lemonade out of any lemon, and it would be properly sweetened". For example, he amusedly pointed out to a student, who reports that he is unable ever to forget it, that Phillips-head screws are stupid – the grooves are deepest where the lever-arm is smallest.
In some ways it's an inversion of Borges's story "Funes, the Memorious", about a Uruguayan man who, after an accident, is unable either to forget anything or classify his memories in a way that might stop them overwhelming him.
But a part of them is unable or unwilling to forget the allure of their previous existences.
Either way, you'll come home unable to remember to forget your visit to Cannes.
Though he attempts to forget Retna Sari, he is unable to do so.
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