unthink
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
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to reverse one's opinion about
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to dispel from the mind
Etymology
Origin of unthink
Example Sentences
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“Colin told me one time that this is the way he went through life, that he liked to create things that people couldn’t unthink,” Dall told the Denver Post.
From Washington Post
“When I was studying art history, I was told to unthink that notion of the starving artist in the garret,” Gordenker says.
From New York Times
Now that she had thought it, she couldn’t unthink it.
From Literature
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We cannot unthink the network; we can only think through and within it.
From The Guardian
But we need, says Harvard University’s Maya Jasanoff, who is prominent throughout the series, to “unthink the inevitability” of the power relations that calcified later.
From Washington Post
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