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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

Galliano can’t unsay or undo the gross, offensive things that happened two years ago.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2013

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

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

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

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

"Marry him without a word against it to dread from me—so long as he unsays the words and undoes the deeds which have thrown a doubt on the marriage of Arnold and Blanche."

From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

Also left unsaid is how quickly agentic AI adoption would spread.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

And with that veil ripped off, every emotion they didn’t let themselves feel, every word left unsaid, every last regret, all become instantly magnified, sprawling out before them on an endless road.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

Thankfully, Babitz did exactly that — no rambling thoughts, petty accusations or amusing missives left unsaid.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

The real reasons were buried beneath piles and piles of unsaid things.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

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 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 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

She wrote again unsaying all she had said, but her father had been too much wounded to reply.

From The Third Miss Symons by F. M. (Flora Macdonald) Mayor

But what is all this, good worthy Baxter, but saying and unsaying?

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge