as in to depose
to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne)
a movie studio chief who likes to boast that he can unmake any star in Hollywood if he wishes
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Recent Examples of unmake
By shuffling these more personal images with his own photographs of their rooms—draperies, windows, unmade beds, a shower stall—Xu constructs a fascinating if confounding new reality, a stage set destined to be struck.
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Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025
Pain can unmake a person’s world, almost literally.
—Boyce Upholt, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2025
In Peter Jackson’s hands, jewelry becomes geopolitics—one accessory to unmake a world.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
The stalwart researcher persists and loses sleep, but can’t reach perfection—I’m afraid
the universe still stubbornly refuses
to be unmade.
—Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Sep. 2025
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Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025
Pain can unmake a person’s world, almost literally.
—Boyce Upholt, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2025
In Peter Jackson’s hands, jewelry becomes geopolitics—one accessory to unmake a world.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
The stalwart researcher persists and loses sleep, but can’t reach perfection—I’m afraid
the universe still stubbornly refuses
to be unmade.
—Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmake
Verb
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Albert was notified on February 11 that attorneys planned for him to be deposed on April 29.—
Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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The Joyces are set to be deposed when discovery is complete.—
Olivia Bensimon,
Curbed,
17 June 2026
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People flocked to their TVs, bars and watch parties in droves to catch the Knicks topple Goliath.—
Mike Vorkunov,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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Standing before it, Khalaf saw how the wall of the adjacent building had toppled onto the ground floor, flooding the shop with rubble and coating everything with a film of fine gray dust.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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The result was so emphatic that the Tunisian soccer federation acted fast, sacking manager Sabri Lamouchi just hours after.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
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Renard, 57, has been out of management since being sacked by Saudi Arabia in April, bringing his second stint with the national team to an end.—
Sam Joseph,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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The judge also dismissed a criminal charge related to possession of a large capacity ammunition magazine, according to Reuters and ABC News.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
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On Wednesday, federal prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss all charges in the case, citing new video evidence.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
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Cleage gives the women plenty of substance, though her novelistic mode — more telling than showing — deprives her drama of style.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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That 7 percent of Makerfield voters chose Restore—even in the knowledge that doing so might deprive another anti-immigration party of victory—points to a deep well of racial grievance and anti-establishment anger that even Farage cannot command.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
19 June 2026
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“Unmake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmake. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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