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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
He wanted to unsay all the things he had said about her—even unsay the things Leslie had said.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
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
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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
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 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
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
In contrast to the fast-paced dramas audiences may be more familiar with, Babies lingers in the quiet - the pauses, the unfinished conversations and the things left unsaid between its characters.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
They talk about all of the things that have been left unsaid, buried by their never-ending battle of wits.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026
“Had I paid attention to numbers, General ...” Lee left the rest unsaid.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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
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 Thomas De Quincey
But seeing himself thinks it more for his credit to tell the world of his saying and unsaying, declaring and undeclaring, let him be doing.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
There was a sort of mad entreaty in his eyes, as if he hoped that by unsaying she could remedy an irremediable disaster, and there was nothing left of him but those panic-stricken, beseeching eyes.
From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
