unsee

Example Sentences

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But the largest error that lies in the hope that people will eventually come around to feeling compassion for the suffering of the “other”—the refugee and the migrant and the trans kid and the woman with an ectopic pregnancy—is that it ignores that we are being trained every day in the opposite direction: We are being conditioned to unsee even those people for whom we felt some kinship a mere eight years ago.

From Slate

It’s sort of like there’s an image that you can’t unsee.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Slate

Ms Lucas said there were "scars we cannot unsee" and she was struggling with trusting others and herself.

From BBC

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