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He said he had advised both parents that once they saw the images, they would never be able to "unsee" them.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
As soon as they saw it, they couldn’t unsee it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
It’s sort of like there’s an image that you can’t unsee.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025
Now that we’ve unearthed these lines, we can’t unsee them.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2025
“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
Hamm, the volatile, unseeing tyrant in Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” has ordered the creation of this cloth companion: one more creature to shrink from him in the dreary, age-worn room that is his realm.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 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
This can be really useful for mitigating anxiety, as well as for unseeing what you once considered can’t-unseeable.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2020
“I will do what I can, of course. But they are so very, very vulnerable, with their hard hearts and their unseeing eyes.”
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
Instead of Gods like Poseidon and Zeus playing an integral role in the story, they are left as unseen forces that motivate the characters’ actions.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
At one point, they came upon previously unseen photographs from Saar’s early career as a costume mistress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Instead, these legendary predators may still be quietly patrolling the region's waters, largely unseen.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
The BBC has obtained previously unseen footage of a man who died after being restrained by prison officers, which contradicts the version of events put forward by officials.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Although the line of riches is cut short by a scar from an unseen hook caught in a fish’s mouth, her lifeline extends out full and long.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
