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unsee

[uhn-see] / ˌʌnˈsi /


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As soon as they saw it, they couldn’t unsee it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

Now that we’ve unearthed these lines, we can’t unsee them.

From Slate Feb. 17, 2025

The insight that Burana speaks of is painfully omnidirectional, and we can also never unsee what we now know about some of the people closest to us — or the agenda they're willing to support.

From Salon Nov. 6, 2024

Or an unpleasant sight you can’t unsee, like the new Apple ultrathin iPad ad.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2024

Molly Krauss said that once and I've never been able to unsee it.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

Daniel, with his unseeing yet piercing gaze, turns out to be the conscience of this story, which doesn’t mean that he, his memories or his eventual testimony can be entirely trusted.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 13, 2023

Hamm, the volatile, unseeing tyrant in Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” has ordered the creation of this cloth companion: one more creature to shrink from him in the dreary, age-worn room that is his realm.

From New York Times Feb. 2, 2023

It poised, tensed, on the landscape of shelterless rocks, While there, close beside, the still unseeing fox Was only a hare’s-breath away.

From Washington Post Aug. 18, 2022

In other words, spiders toss, turn, and avert their unseeing gaze, much as humans do during their dreams.

From Washington Times Aug. 9, 2022

For a while he sat with unseeing eyes as if walking in distant memory or listening to sounds in the Night far away.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

With fond memories of living in the condo complex in his 20s, the 43-year-old public employee decided to buy a two-bedroom unit, sight unseen, for $260,000 in July 2024.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

When a three-bedroom, roughly 2,000-square-foot home was listed, he made an offer sight unseen.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

There was a freedom to their batting hitherto unseen in this series so far.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Her daughter has obviously inherited Heder’s deep well of empathy, one that is more concerned with bringing new, unseen stories to the screen than with the pursuit of cool points or pure fame.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Although perhaps you will become a little unseen, since you see unseen things now, especially after you see more of them.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi




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