as in to retract
to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to)
the witness tried to unsay the very testimony that he had given a few days earlier
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Recent Examples of unsay
And what stands out is what is unsaid, the life stories of the people who were owned by our president, who worked those plantations, who served these presidents.
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Tonya Mosley,
NPR,
5 May 2026
In fact, there is little that Obama has left unsaid about Trump in the past fifteen years.
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Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Now, there is no way to unsay it.
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Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
Left unsaid was that the former group, which included Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk and Jauan Jennings, could be unpredictable and a challenge to coaches and teammates alike.
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Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for unsay
Tonya Mosley,
NPR,
5 May 2026
In fact, there is little that Obama has left unsaid about Trump in the past fifteen years.
—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Now, there is no way to unsay it.
—
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
Left unsaid was that the former group, which included Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk and Jauan Jennings, could be unpredictable and a challenge to coaches and teammates alike.
—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for unsay
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsay
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The remote control has mixed reviews, with this seemingly retracting from its otherwise glowing reviews.
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Britain’s national grid issued, then retracted, a call for more power as the buffer between supply and expected demand grew tight; electricity prices hit $740 per megawatt Wednesday evening, up from $100 in the morning.
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Jafarzadeh highlighted Khabiri as a symbol of the regime’s repression of athletes, as Khabiri was a rising soccer star who became captain of Iran’s national team before being arrested and asked to appear on television to renounce his political beliefs.
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Her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country (2018), seeks to take stock of, and renounce, American solipsism abroad.
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Ballot measure proponents had a Thursday evening deadline to withdraw their proposals.
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Patients might be women in their 30s with an autoimmune disease like lupus or people of any age exposed to such toxins as methamphetamines or, in the past, the fen-phen appetite suppressant drug of the 1990s, later withdrawn after being linked to heart disease.
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That agreement set a 60-day period for negotiations on key issues, including the future of Tehran’s nuclear program amid concerns that Iran wants to use it for military purposes, a claim the country denies.
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Pitt's request for possible sanctions, or monetary fines, in the legal proceeding was denied, per court documents.
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The group also took time to contradict claims from AV makers like Tesla, which often rely on a 2019 NHTSA study finding that 94 percent of car accidents are due to human error in order to suggest that AVs will make roads safer.
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The foreign ministry and the Guards have been noted to have different interests throughout the conflict, sometimes contradicting each other.
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“Unsay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsay. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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