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Recent Examples of unmake That's because the foundational environmental laws of the country prescribe a process for making and unmaking rules. Neela Banerjee, NPR, 13 Mar. 2025 Right at its center is a two-scene knockout about the making (and unmaking) of reputations that only an actor of Hackman’s deftness could pull off. Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025 The picture that emerged was more multifaceted than the one Thompson had painted, with complicated intersections of race, gender, and geography continually unmaking and remaking group identities. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Feb. 2025 Plans have been made, stalled and unmade ever since. Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unmake
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmake
Verb
  • But the arrest on Kelce’s property came two days after a judge overseeing the Lively-Baldoni case denied a request from Baldoni’s legal team for an extension to depose Swift, ABC News reported.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Taylor Swift will likely not be deposed in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's legal battle.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The comedically top-heavy sausages, which can easily topple forwards into the dirt, temporarily take center stage as the baseball players gaze on in amusement from their dugouts, sometimes wagering on the outcome.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Republicans toppled the Democrats’ huge House majority and seized the speaker’s gavel from Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) by gaining 63 seats, mostly by running on a pro-repeal message.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Notre Dame fell 27-24 to Miami in the season opener, when Carr was sacked three times.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Being sacked by Chelsea and then West Ham in less than three years is slightly different to winning league and European trophies and being a statue-level hero at three different clubs, or taking England to two major finals and making the national team likeable again.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Seven of those charged previously pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and prosecutors moved to dismiss their felony counts.
    Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Olguin dismissed the case in 2022 after finding Elden’s claims were time-barred without addressing the substance of his allegations.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This involves labeling people according to categories that deprive them of positive human qualities.
    Ron Barrett, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday estimated that a shutdown could furlough roughly 750,000 federal workers each day, depriving them of about $400 million in wages daily.
    Nik Popli, Time, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Unmake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmake. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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