unmake
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How do we "unmake the self-made myth," Quart asks.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023
Which is exactly the way that OpenAI, the company that stands to benefit the most from everyone believing its product has the power to remake — or unmake — the world, wants it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 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
Indeed, della Porta’s experiments led him to adopt the opposite view: that you can use a diamond to make, rather than unmake, a magnet.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
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
“Language makes and unmakes reality,” says Sally Elliott, the aspiring writer character who serves as Coover's stand-in.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2014
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
A single casino, with an attached five-star hotel and apartments, sits alone near the sea, fronted by an unmade road, and surrounded by a construction site.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2023
The bed was unmade and dusty fluff had accumulated on the floor.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
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
