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unselect

American  
[uhn-si-lekt] / ˌʌn sɪˈlɛkt /

verb (used with object)

unselected, unselecting
  1. Computers. to cancel or reverse the selection of.


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In the General tab, unselect iCloud Music Library.

From The Verge ● Aug. 3, 2022

"I frankly don't have that money to spend on legal bills, so for this unselect committee, I will actually be privately deposed in December," Alexander said.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2021

You can click a selected option again to unselect.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2018

The author’s voice—sometimes erudite, sometimes wisecracking, sometimes goofily confessional—accompanied the movie like a DVD commentary track that I couldn’t unselect.

From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2012

Any of those industries is a better and more liberal business than unselect reading, for instance, or than unselect writing. 

From The Spirit of Place and Other Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

They might go unselected in power-conference free agency and have no other options but to accept relegation to the Mountain West — which in that case would be the only FBS league out West.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

Juzang is No. 63 on ESPN’s list of the best available college players, meaning he could risk going unselected in a draft that includes 60 picks in two rounds, which includes foreign players.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2021

He was frustrated that he went unselected, but he said it “didn’t matter” how he got to the NFL as long as he stuck around.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2020

Before each new episode, each team is allowed to deploy their once per season option to swap one contestant from their team for another from the pool of unselected contestants.

From The Verge ● Jan. 5, 2016

Before we can interpret the results of an examination it is necessary to know how frequently an I Q of the size found occurs among unselected children.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

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