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to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne)
a movie studio chief who likes to boast that he can unmake any star in Hollywood if he wishes
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Recent Examples of unmaking
Kim Willis,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
The unmaking of the West has not been Trump’s doing alone.
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Stewart Patrick,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Sep. 2025
Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
By the time Ben is unmaking the bed, lying in it, and cussing João out, the fight is bad.
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Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
26 May 2026
Noun
The film doesn’t entirely shy away from Presley’s unmaking.
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Kim Willis,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
The unmaking of the West has not been Trump’s doing alone.
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Stewart Patrick,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
An ellipsis making and unmaking itself.
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Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
By the time Ben is unmaking the bed, lying in it, and cussing João out, the fight is bad.
—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
26 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmaking
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In April, federal authorities arrested a special operations soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making more than $400,000 for betting on his removal from office.
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Running until July 15, the hearing's structure allows only testimony from those *opposed* to rescheduling, drawing criticism from reform advocates like NORML and NCIA, who seek complete removal from the CSA.
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Conspicuously absent in the edit is the follow-up question from the attorney deposing Cavanaugh, who asked whether DOGE actually managed to reduce the deficit.
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While the opposition Conservative Party has a history of deposing prime ministers while in office, Labour does not, said Jonathan Tonge, a professor of politics at the University of Liverpool.
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Haitian soldiers seasoned on American battlefields during the revolution later sparked Haiti’s overthrow of French colonial rule, depriving France of its most profitable slave colony and ending one of the most brutal enslavement of human beings in modern world history.
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Then in 1973, Nixon and Henry Kissinger, his secretary of state, plotted the overthrow of yet another democracy in Chile, propping up the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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To an outsider, the scene may spark a certain Schadenfreude, like an army of tiny barbarians sacking Rome.
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One source close to the squad, speaking anonymously to protect relationships, told The Athletic that the AUF considered sacking Bielsa around this period, aware of the ongoing issues with the squad.
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Dershowitz served as a member of the president's legal team during the Senate trial, and made remarks about the constitutional standards for impeachment on the Senate floor.
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Trump was withholding money from Ukraine that Congress had appropriated, and that was the basis for the impeachment.
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Statue toppling riots… and the very real possibility of death.
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Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton missed the entire 2025-26 campaign to recover from a torn Achilles, but the Pacers were one game away from toppling the Oklahoma City Thunder and winning the 2024-25 championship before Haliburton got hurt.
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Accra’s 1969 migrant expulsion and Uganda’s mass ban three years later both triggered capital flight and supply chain chaos.
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The poems explore themes of loss, identity, artmaking and the natural world, as well as the 1885 expulsion of Chinese immigrants from Eureka, California.
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The insensitive promotion was swiftly canceled, leading to the CEO's dismissal, a public apology, and mandatory history training for 24,000 employees.
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But the European Court of Justice dismissal on Thursday marks the end of that process.
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“Unmaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmaking. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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