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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
  • What isn’t known — and what university and fraternity officials have refused to discuss — is what happened in the basement of the three-story house in the 1300 block of West Campus Road, before the young man lost consciousness.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Thomas, alas, can refuse any trade after taking the qualifying offer this summer and will be an unrestricted free agent in 2026.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals later rejected a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel against him.
    Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Senate rejected Democratic and Republican plans to reopen the government Thursday, its seventh attempt to break the stalemate.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Prizegivers have also in the past been accused of being snobbish, of having an anti-American bias and of ignoring some of the giants of literature, including Russia's Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, France's Emile Zola and Ireland's James Joyce.
    Simon Johnson, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Hoping the broadcasts ignore that will always be a fruitless endeavor.
    Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Agency officials and spokespeople declined to speak to ProPublica.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Trammell Crow declined to provide further details on the permit filing, including information on a construction timeline.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Deselect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deselect. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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