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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Something that has already gone unsaid for too long.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.

From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017

I gave him no chance of unsaying with grace or credit what he could not fail to regret that he had said.

From A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

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

And how was that unsaying to be accomplished?

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

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

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