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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Other Word Forms

• unselection
  noun

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

unselect unselected

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

Maybe, it all rests with an as yet unselected Jefferson County, Ky., judge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

Why he’s ranked here: Curhan was projected by a lot of analysts to be a late-round pick until some medical issues late in the process led to him going unselected.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 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

Hayes quickly unselected the box, but his card’s last four digits and expiration date had already been displayed.

From The Verge ● Apr. 29, 2020

An Unselected Population May Contain Much Valuable Material.—In evaluating these lower strata a matter of very great importance is whether the population is a selected or an unselected one.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer

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