unselect
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
An extraordinary multitude of donors and subscribers had turned up, all the select society of the town; but even the unselect were admitted, if only they produced the cash.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Maybe, it all rests with an as yet unselected Jefferson County, Ky., judge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
Despite winning a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League scoring title with 37 goals and 87 assists for his Victoriaville squad in 2011-12, Gourde notoriously went unselected by NHL teams.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
Washington used a similar method to re-sign Oshie in 2017, when it left him unprotected in the Vegas Golden Knights expansion draft but re-signed him a few days later after he went unselected.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021
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
In a race of similarly unselected competitors in my day, they would have been strung along the track from the finish to the half, and the most of them nearest that.
From Equality by Edward Bellamy
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