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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

Lissa backed away from us, her hand covering her mouth, as if she wanted to unsay what she’d just said.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

Lethem’s revisionist project ultimately unsays as much as it says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

Mr. Hughes forgets—or does he forget?—that in the sequel to this poem, entitled Sixty Years After, Tennyson unsays all the high-pitched dispraise of Amy and her squire.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

"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

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

There’s a reason in life for the way life evolves, and I think one of those is the unsaid, and the unsaid is a beautiful thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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

“Michael” is bizarre because everything left unsaid still lingers between the lines, sandwiched between the formidable melodies of his greatest hits, like toxic ooze leaking out from the middle of two slices of Wonderbread.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

Ifemelu folded her arms, and as often happened when she was about to say something she knew was better unsaid, the words rushed up her throat.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017

Time and again in her heart of hearts had she planned how those unsaying words should be said, and said just as soon as ever he came, but he came rather soon and suddenly.

From A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by Charles King

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

He could not conceive of the Titan "unsaying his high language, and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary."

From Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds

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