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
With each speech and every action, they make or unmake the regime.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim—as you will be—of the universe’s need to make and unmake all that is possible.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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
I can’t even leave the house with an unmade bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
"When you go on holiday you can just shut your door and leave your bed unmade."
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024
I opened the window and lay on my unmade bed.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
Making and unmaking an anus sounds like such an ordeal, you might imagine comb jellies poop rarely.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 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
The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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