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

Subtle rhymes, with ruin rife, Murmur in the house of life, Sung by the Sisters as they spin; In perfect time and measure they Build and unbuild our echoing clay.

From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

And here you may have a surprise and be taught a lesson in wariness which you will need if you would survive your unbuilding.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard

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

In total, organisers say the Saudi World Cup will be played in 15 stadiums across five cities: Riyadh, Jeddah, Abha, Al-Khobar and Neom, an as yet unbuilt city in the north-west of the country.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024

Though earthquake shocks are rocking her, And tempests are abroad; Unshaken as eternal hills, Unmovable she stands,— A mountain that shall fill the earth, A fane unbuilt by hands.

From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various