unsee
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of unsee
First recorded in 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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Between the two actors’ faces lies a vast expanse of experience, disappointment, and things that Kay has seen and can’t unsee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
It’s sort of like there’s an image that you can’t unsee.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025
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
“Why you’d want to go back in time to change something. All those people,” she said, shutting her eyes as though she could unsee it all that way.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
He turned his blind, unseeing eyes upon me.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
We’re witnessing the power of pure art, even as Rock cleverly waters down the moment with the sound of an unseen bartender rattling a martini shaker in the background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
For decades, photographer Tim Smith's images of Bradford's British Asian "daytimers" dance scene remained largely unseen.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“The biggest issue we need to solve next to continue to grow the game off the field is fixing the payroll disparity unseen in any other major U.S. sport,” MLB spokesman Glen Caplin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Moth swarms so thick they can blot out the stars are fluttering across Australia, heralding a migratory spectacle unseen since the creature's brush with extinction nearly 10 years ago.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
I run my hands over the soft velvet of my dress, smoothing any unseen wrinkles, and I happily discover it has hidden pockets!
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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