unsay
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I know that I cannot unsay those words, but please accept my sincerest apologies.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2019
Yet he can’t unsay what was said on the audio tape.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2018
And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017
Galliano can’t unsay or undo the gross, offensive things that happened two years ago.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2013
He wanted to unsay all the things he had said about her—even unsay the things Leslie had said.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
Lethem’s revisionist project ultimately unsays as much as it says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
There is something half laughable and half provoking in the facility with which he asserts and retracts, says and unsays, exactly as suits his argument.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Mr. Sumner's speech in the Senate unsays no part of his Faneuil Hall pledge.
From American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Alexander Johnston
Besides which, he is grown moral, and unsays all his former good things.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
Mr. Hughes forgets—or does he forget?—that in the sequel to this poem, entitled Sixty Years After, Tennyson unsays all the high-pitched dispraise of Amy and her squire.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
There’s a reason in life for the way life evolves, and I think one of those is the unsaid, and the unsaid is a beautiful thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Left unsaid was whether Tehran is prepared to permanently drop its demand that it should be able to collect tolls from transiting commercial vessels and if those negotiations would lead to a fully reopened waterway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Or is that a conversation better left unsaid?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Michael” is bizarre because everything left unsaid still lingers between the lines, sandwiched between the formidable melodies of his greatest hits, like toxic ooze leaking out from the middle of two slices of Wonderbread.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
The real reasons were buried beneath piles and piles of unsaid things.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017
Time and again in her heart of hearts had she planned how those unsaying words should be said, and said just as soon as ever he came, but he came rather soon and suddenly.
From A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by Charles King
She wrote again unsaying all she had said, but her father had been too much wounded to reply.
From The Third Miss Symons by F. M. (Flora Macdonald) Mayor
But what is all this, good worthy Baxter, but saying and unsaying?
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And how was that unsaying to be accomplished?
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
