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He said he had advised both parents that once they saw the images, they would never be able to "unsee" them.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
As soon as they saw it, they couldn’t unsee it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
But the best compliment I can pay Early is that, while you never quite unsee his jawline and strategic padding, his total commitment is such that it swings you over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Now that we’ve unearthed these lines, we can’t unsee them.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2025
His dad closes his eyes again, like he wants to unsee what he’s imagining.
From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Daniel, with his unseeing yet piercing gaze, turns out to be the conscience of this story, which doesn’t mean that he, his memories or his eventual testimony can be entirely trusted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
It poised, tensed, on the landscape of shelterless rocks, While there, close beside, the still unseeing fox Was only a hare’s-breath away.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
In other words, spiders toss, turn, and avert their unseeing gaze, much as humans do during their dreams.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
Sea horses gazed at me from dried, unseeing eye sockets, their snoutlike mouths frozen in a macabre O! of surprise.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2018
Her face was now directed toward the dark corner where Hamlet and I stood, but her gaze was impassive and unseeing.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
Moth swarms so thick they can blot out the stars are fluttering across Australia, heralding a migratory spectacle unseen since the creature's brush with extinction nearly 10 years ago.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
With fond memories of living in the condo complex in his 20s, the 43-year-old public employee decided to buy a two-bedroom unit, sight unseen, for $260,000 in July 2024.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
German submarines attempted to approach British vessels unseen and destroy them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
When a three-bedroom, roughly 2,000-square-foot home was listed, he made an offer sight unseen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
How was she supposed to look for the unseen things Pet kept talking about?
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
