unsee
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But the best compliment I can pay Early is that, while you never quite unsee his jawline and strategic padding, his total commitment is such that it swings you over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Between the two actors’ faces lies a vast expanse of experience, disappointment, and things that Kay has seen and can’t unsee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Now that we’ve unearthed these lines, we can’t unsee them.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2025
At this she falls silent, haunted by what she cannot unsee.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2024
“Why you’d want to go back in time to change something. All those people,” she said, shutting her eyes as though she could unsee it all that way.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Daniel, with his unseeing yet piercing gaze, turns out to be the conscience of this story, which doesn’t mean that he, his memories or his eventual testimony can be entirely trusted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
It poised, tensed, on the landscape of shelterless rocks, While there, close beside, the still unseeing fox Was only a hare’s-breath away.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
Our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep, except our unseeing eyes, which still flit around behind sealed lids, like captive butterflies.
From Slate ● May 28, 2018
She held her breath in the darkness, and the party passed unseeing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2017
Bigger half-rose in dread, then sat again, his eyes lifted, but unseeing.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
How can you believe in an unseen being?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Moore plays Mona, a meek, thoroughly unseen wife and mother who impulsively decides to audition for a community theater musical despite having no experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
For decades, photographer Tim Smith's images of Bradford's British Asian "daytimers" dance scene remained largely unseen.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Moth swarms so thick they can blot out the stars are fluttering across Australia, heralding a migratory spectacle unseen since the creature's brush with extinction nearly 10 years ago.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Why would I condemn me and mine to remain in the dark, unseen? I have been dead for too long, Miss Harari. I grow weary of it.”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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