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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
Lissa backed away from us, her hand covering her mouth, as if she wanted to unsay what she’d just said.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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
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
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
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 Anthony Trollope
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
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
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
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
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
Highness has a manner to-night which disconcerts me by its novelty; a saying things and then unsaying them; suggesting and then, somehow, treading down the suggestion like a spark of your lightning.
From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Vernon Lee
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
