unbuild

If you dally as the clock approaches 2 p.m. on Sunday, you will see that Jerson Osorio’s team can unbuild a city as fast as they can build one.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024

Over the next several weeks, her relatives unbuild Ypi’s entire sense of reality: Her country was a prison, her education was indoctrination, the old versions of freedom and democracy were lies.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2022

And though stigmergy might explain how termites build, it does not readily explain why they so often unbuild, dismantling and modifying their work as they go.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018

There is something striking about hearing Deulofeu talking about the future and stability, although the risk when you build a talented team is that others come and unbuild it.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2015

When men laboriously erect its sepulchre, faith, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, Will arise and unbuild it again.

From Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Henry Sloane Coffin

And that would mean unbuilding the Great Wall.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022

Indeed, the termite mound is not so much a building as a body, a self-regulating organic process that continuously reacts to its changing environment, building and unbuilding itself.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018

And the dreams that have gotten away have tended to be unfulfilled exercises in unbuilding and regreening.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2018

To minimize the potential for contamination, workers have had to reverse engineer HA-23S, essentially unbuilding it from the inside using the glove ports.

From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 1, 2013

The daily building and unbuilding of these snowy cloud-ranges—the highest Sierra—is a prime marvel to me, and I gaze at the stupendous white domes, miles high, with ever fresh admiration.

From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

All I see is traffic, roads are still unbuilt, and I’m still having an affordability crisis,’ ” Lavina said.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

In 2025, London had 281,000 unbuilt homes—houses that were conditionally accepted but never built, often because the developer decided the conditions were too arduous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

The proposed moratorium would not have stopped the giant World Logistics Center, which was approved by the City Council in 2015 and remains largely unbuilt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

Belfast's Casement Park and Everton's Bramley-Moore Dock, the former unbuilt while the latter is still under construction, were also included in the bid.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2023

It inspires the very soul to worship in these unbuilt cathedrals with wilderness of aisle and pillars, which for elegance and beauty have never been equalled by the architects of any age.

From Camping For Boys by Henry William Gibson