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But as soon as I said it, I couldn't unsay it.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2023

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

Now that I’ve thought it and said it, I can’t unthink it and unsay it.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

Lethem’s revisionist project ultimately unsays as much as it says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

And in the last essay of all he makes a campaign against bad laws, which unsays many of his previous sayings on the blessedness of custom.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

"Marry him without a word against it to dread from me—so long as he unsays the words and undoes the deeds which have thrown a doubt on the marriage of Arnold and Blanche."

From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

She unsays her words, she gives herself the lie, she says to the children, “Be old!”

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

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

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

But perhaps the most revealing question is what Sonia's memoir will choose to say - and what it will leave unsaid.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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

Left unsaid was that this is what Harris has long been accused of doing — again and again.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

There was an awful lot that went unsaid when you were with The Ancestors.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.

From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017

He could not conceive of the Titan "unsaying his high language, and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary."

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds

But pride prompted this, for he said to himself, "If Margaret and I keep at this childish work of unsaying each other's commands, that sharp old fellow, Reuben, will suspect that we have quarrelled."

From Friends and Neighbors by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Do you know, I almost feel tempted to give way to this Martinmas summer of love, to stultify my past by unsaying and undoing everything.

From The Woman Who Did by Grant Allen

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