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Recent Examples of deselect 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 Click Edit and deselect the checkbox. Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2020 On the next page that appears, deselect the Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices option. Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Nov. 2022 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 Make sure to knock Frontier and Spirit out of the running by deselecting them on either of the search engines, as their service and extra fees will make the fare and flight too much hassle for the money. Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deselect
Verb
  • While many rideshare companies refuse to pay affiliate commissions, Obi has built a parallel revenue stream via a data business selling anonymized, aggregated insights.
    Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Agencies refused to release Neal’s autopsy and the Florida Highway Patrol’s report of the crash, and the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office had declined to comment on whether further charges are pending.
    Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • After twice rejecting Trump, Nevadans ousted a Democratic governor in 2022 and helped Trump back to the White House in 2024.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Hall has rejected Puri's recommendation to reinstate Farhat as the Democratic appropriations chair, made in a letter that blasted the speaker's approach to budget negotiations.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This isn’t about weakening rights or ignoring the role of guns.
    For the Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Or Joe Biden when Putin ignored his warnings and invaded Ukraine in 2022.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Attorney General’s Office declined to comment on the complaint, which was filed in March 2025.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, AZCentral.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The Current declined to comment and referred all requests to the NWSL.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025

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“Deselect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deselect. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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