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But as soon as I said it, I couldn't unsay it.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2023
Yet he can’t unsay what was said on the audio tape.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2018
This is the reality-TV kind of reality where, in post-production, you can unsay anything.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 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
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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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 Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert
Do not accuse him of falsehood because he unsays on a Tuesday the words he said on the Monday.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
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 Foote, G. W. (George William)
Or is that a conversation better left unsaid?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
John F. Kennedy was a sailor and "the second most good-looking president," Trump said, leaving unsaid who is the first.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Left unsaid was the fact that Steyer’s firm had extensive financial ties to San Diego’s Accredited Home Lenders, one of the biggest subprime mortgage lenders in the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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
So much I said, and left the other unsaid.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017
"And if Aunt Julia isn't a 'Mede 'n' Persian,' she might almost as well be one—when it comes to unsaying things," Patricia told herself, as she started for the house.
From Patricia by Elliott, Emilia [pseud.]
And how was that unsaying to be accomplished?
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony
"Old men, and far from well, who have lived such a long time in their peace," they have made the laborious journey, and are now valiantly suppressing their homesickness, and unsaying their involuntary complaints.
From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint
But the bibliolatrist cannot say that; because, if he does, then he is formally unsaying the very principle which is meant by bibliolatry.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas
