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Yet he can’t unsay what was said on the audio tape.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2018

This is the reality-TV kind of reality where, in post-production, you can unsay anything.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2018

And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.

From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017

Galliano can’t unsay or undo the gross, offensive things that happened two years ago.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2013

Now that I’ve thought it and said it, I can’t unthink it and unsay it.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

Lethem’s revisionist project ultimately unsays as much as it says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

"Marry him without a word against it to dread from me—so long as he unsays the words and undoes the deeds which have thrown a doubt on the marriage of Arnold and Blanche."

From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

Mr. Hughes forgets—or does he forget?—that in the sequel to this poem, entitled Sixty Years After, Tennyson unsays all the high-pitched dispraise of Amy and her squire.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

Mr. Sumner's speech in the Senate unsays no part of his Faneuil Hall pledge.

From American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Alexander Johnston

And in the last essay of all he makes a campaign against bad laws, which unsays many of his previous sayings on the blessedness of custom.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Also left unsaid is how quickly agentic AI adoption would spread.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

But the present and possibly future Green Lanterns were summoned there for a reason best left unsaid here, and in keeping with HBO’s extensive spoiler embargo.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Left unsaid was whether Tehran is prepared to permanently drop its demand that it should be able to collect tolls from transiting commercial vessels and if those negotiations would lead to a fully reopened waterway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Left unsaid was the fact that Steyer’s firm had extensive financial ties to San Diego’s Accredited Home Lenders, one of the biggest subprime mortgage lenders in the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

There was so much left unsaid in her story, that we saw playing in her eyes, as she spoke only part of it.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

And then they unsay it, and they keep unsaying it, breaking their own rules over and over again.

From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017

"I unsay every word," said Mr. Merridew, for the second time, and more pointedly than ever; for, even in his really generous emotion, he could not help feeling that it was unsaying a great deal.

From Denis Dent A Novel by Ernest W. Hornung

I gave him no chance of unsaying with grace or credit what he could not fail to regret that he had said.

From A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

And how was that unsaying to be accomplished?

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

"Old men, and far from well, who have lived such a long time in their peace," they have made the laborious journey, and are now valiantly suppressing their homesickness, and unsaying their involuntary complaints.

From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Saint of Siena Catherine