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Recent Examples of deselect To turn it off, go to Settings > System > Power Saving, and deselect Use Power Saver for each title. PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025 On a Mac, click on the Control Center, then click Screen Mirroring and deselect your iPad from the dropdown list. Brenda Stolyar, Wired News, 10 May 2025 People will deselect brands that don’t. Jesper Brodin, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025 To turn off a specific filter, tap Filtered by again, then deselect it. Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2023 On the next page that appears, deselect the Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices option. Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Nov. 2022 Click Edit and deselect the checkbox. Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2020 Occasionally, pathfinding might break and force us to deselect the entire party, select an individual character, and move them (after which pathfinding was fine again). Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2020 Churchill himself was deselected in 1904 in an argument over free trade. Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deselect
Verb
  • My adoptive parents had refused to allow contact or send pictures, and didn’t tell me about her attempt to communicate with us for years after the fact.
    Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Federal officials refused to return him, accusing him of being a gang member, despite judges’ orders that he should be sent back to the United States.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The letter also called for the return of mandatory standardized testing in university admissions and for universities to report the anonymous scores and grades of accepted and rejected students.
    Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In a June ruling, a three-judge Kansas Court of Appeals panel rejected Kobach’s arguments in no uncertain terms.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The collapse of water security in Iran has been decades in the making and is rooted in a mania for megaprojects—dam building, deep wells, and water transfer schemes—that ignored the fundamentals of hydrology and ecological balance.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Pierre LeBrun’s viewpoint Arpon, no doubt the Hughes contract injects a fresh comparable into the discussion that neither the Canadiens nor the Hutson camp can ignore, though using comparables always seems to be in the eye of the beholder.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And some items, though limited, have seen prices decline, including Graeter’s Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip ice cream, Montgomery Inn’s full rack of ribs, Pringles potato chips and Red and Blue Bicycle Playing cards (though a standard deck has risen 11% in line with the overall index.
    Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Netflix has declined to comment on Musk’s campaign.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Deselect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deselect. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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