unmake

How do we "unmake the self-made myth," Quart asks.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023

There’s no choice in that; there’s no room to really unmake yourself from it.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

In a swift 12 songs and 39 minutes, Vu grapples with what it takes to unmake and remake the self.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

This makes the circumstances of his death seem like an accident of timing — as though they didn't result from a decision someone had made and then tacitly renewed by refusing to unmake it.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2020

Indeed, della Porta’s experiments led him to adopt the opposite view: that you can use a diamond to make, rather than unmake, a magnet.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

When Morpheus unmakes the Corinthian, he denounces the aggrieved entitlement of the Collectors telling them, "Until now, you have sustained fantasies in which you are the victims, comforting daydreams in which you are always right."

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022

The artist both unmakes and remakes, transforming everyday objects into both raw material and accomplished art.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021

Again, she poses an idea through possibility: “Maybe the value of art, to artists and everyone else, is that it upends other value systems. Art unmakes the world made by art.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2020

That which makes us also unmakes us, and the process of living seems inextricably bound to the process of dying.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017

The world unmakes stuff faster than people can make it.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Second, they believed that financial fortunes were made and unmade, above all else, by circumstance, meaning that defaults did not tar someone’s financial reputation for life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

Mexican media outlets published images of the cabin's luxurious interior, showing furniture with open drawers and unmade beds.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

I can’t even leave the house with an unmade bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

Mr Evans said it was not "in the middle of nowhere" but was along an unmade track on "quite a busy" public footpath through the wood.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

It cannot be unmade by your hands, or by mine.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Because it is the unmaking of an agreement, rescission is an extreme remedy and should only be granted by a court of equity when it is ‘clearly warranted,’” the court wrote in the unsigned opinion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Bess entered the room and immediately started unmaking the bed.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022

There you go: the breaking, making and then unmaking of the world in under two minutes.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2021

The unmaking of a Beatle: George Harrison’s widow and son on the legacy of ‘All Things Must Pass’

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

Anyone with access to a compass and a clove of garlic could perform their own test, which is why the unmaking of the old ‘fact’ was so important.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton