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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
  • Many call for hundreds of hours spent deposing witnesses and performing research, as well as upfront costs of tens of thousands of dollars.
    Molly Redden, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
  • After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the United States enforced two no-fly zones covering vast swathes of northern and southern Iraq, patrolling them until the 2003 ground invasion that deposed Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • In one of the few shocks of the 2024 election season, Lundberg was toppled by Bobby Harshbarger in a heated August GOP primary.
    Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • With fears that the M23 was threatening to topple the Congolese government and of regional war erupting in central Africa, the Trump administration applied heavy pressure on both Congo and Rwanda to stop the fighting.
    Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • He certainly will not be sacked, as Emery essentially runs all things football at Villa now.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Wilson led the Dolphins to touchdowns on both his drives after replacing Tagovailoa for the second series of a 24-24 tie with Chicago last week, and he was sacked four times.
    Jack Magruder, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Boston Magazine reported that during her training she was ultimately dismissed for administering opiates without a doctor’s order and leaving her shift early.
    Christina Coulter, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Charges of marijuana possession and multiple traffic violations were dismissed.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The goal of bringing a case against a company like Google is to stop the anti-competitive behavior, deprive it of the fruits of its violations, and make sure markets are competitive going forward.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The intent was to deprive the Kremlin of revenue to fund its war in Ukraine, forcing the Russian government either to sell its oil at a discount or divert money for a costly alternative shipping network.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2025

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“Unmake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmake. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.

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