unmake
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How do we "unmake the self-made myth," Quart asks.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023
There’s no choice in that; there’s no room to really unmake yourself from it.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
Just by wrapping the hanging ropes inside a loose rope, we could make a glorious tree — and just as quickly unmake it or change it into many different kinds of trees.”
From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022
He thought that the power of a few large employers to make or unmake suburban lives had distorted the stories of his boyhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
He slept on a lumpy couch, which he had to make and unmake every day.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
When Morpheus unmakes the Corinthian, he denounces the aggrieved entitlement of the Collectors telling them, "Until now, you have sustained fantasies in which you are the victims, comforting daydreams in which you are always right."
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
The artist both unmakes and remakes, transforming everyday objects into both raw material and accomplished art.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021
Again, she poses an idea through possibility: “Maybe the value of art, to artists and everyone else, is that it upends other value systems. Art unmakes the world made by art.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
That which makes us also unmakes us, and the process of living seems inextricably bound to the process of dying.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
The world unmakes stuff faster than people can make it.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Second, they believed that financial fortunes were made and unmade, above all else, by circumstance, meaning that defaults did not tar someone’s financial reputation for life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Mexican media outlets published images of the cabin's luxurious interior, showing furniture with open drawers and unmade beds.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
“If I said purple, you’d say red / With your brown hair tumbling like an unmade bed / And we’d both die laughing at something I said / Talking to you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
Her bed is unmade, and beside it sits a pile of drawings from her first-grade students, telling her how much they loved her.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2023
I’d taken a seat on the corner of his unmade bed.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
“Because it is the unmaking of an agreement, rescission is an extreme remedy and should only be granted by a court of equity when it is ‘clearly warranted,’” the court wrote in the unsigned opinion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
What the voyage now represents is the unmaking of ideas from some of the great thinkers and creators of the age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025
Bess entered the room and immediately started unmaking the bed.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
There you go: the breaking, making and then unmaking of the world in under two minutes.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2021
Science is not like the state, which is entirely of our own making, though unmaking it would, like unmaking money, be far from easy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
