unsee
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of unsee
First recorded in 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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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
Ms Lucas said there were "scars we cannot unsee" and she was struggling with trusting others and herself.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025
But once that is seen, I’m told, you can’t unsee it.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023
“It was a moment of inspiration. But now that I’ve said it...I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to unsee it.”
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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
Trym stirred, blinked, and watched them for a while, unseeing.
From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2022
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
I swallowed and stared unseeing, the words spurting to me from a red, misty distance.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Instead of Gods like Poseidon and Zeus playing an integral role in the story, they are left as unseen forces that motivate the characters’ actions.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
This motion occurs when a star moves slightly toward and away from Earth as an unseen, massive object pulls on it while orbiting.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
At one point, they came upon previously unseen photographs from Saar’s early career as a costume mistress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
As Highsmith writes in the novel, “There’s also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
It was at that moment Clara’s spirit, unseen by all but Ophie, straightened up tall, and it was as if the whole room took a breath.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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