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
At this she falls silent, haunted by what she cannot unsee.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2024
He looks extra golfy today, in a tucked-in polo shirt, and now I can’t unsee the Prince William thing.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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
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
In other words, spiders toss, turn, and avert their unseeing gaze, much as humans do during their dreams.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
Scars crossed and disfigured his face with jagged lines across his forehead and down the length of one cheek, and his eyes were opaque and unseeing.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
There’s a grounded, earthy lyricism to the images captured in “Esta Isla” that show a Puerto Rico that’s at once lush and entrancing but also undiscovered and unseen in cinema.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The result therefore strengthens the case that an unseen component, dark matter, supplies the additional gravitational pull.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
By the time the BBC launched the cult cinema series Moviedrome in 1988, external, there was only one choice for opening night - the premiere of a previously unseen edit of The Wicker Man.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
For many at the front, the main fear is not an infantryman storming over the top, but an unseen enemy operating a drone from far away with a joystick.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’d just be a matter of looking in an unseen place.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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