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
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
Why make a bed when you’re only going to have to unmake it that night?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2021
“Of course! A builder can make and unmake a house. Both are his job.”
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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
Discussing unmade films and dealing with an unruly pet iguana, Panahi renders an illuminating self-portrait.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
Mr Evans said it was not "in the middle of nowhere" but was along an unmade track on "quite a busy" public footpath through the wood.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024
Sir Fig Newton lay on my unmade bed, preening with intense resolve.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Whether she will be his making or unmaking is an open question.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
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
The unmaking of a Beatle: George Harrison’s widow and son on the legacy of ‘All Things Must Pass’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2021
She was not alive and she knew it, but...whatever her new state might lack, it was infinitely preferable to the unmaking that had almost devoured her.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
