unmade
ˌən-ˈmād 
; unmaking
; unmaking
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Examples of unmake in a Sentence
a movie studio chief who likes to boast that he can unmake any star in Hollywood if he wishes
Recent Examples on the Web
Marketing needs to know how decisions get made and unmade at your prospects' companies.
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Alison Murdock, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
In the aftermath, Connor, one of road decommissioning’s foremost pioneers, set to unmaking what her forebears had built.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
The works evoke making and unmaking simultaneously.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
Limited in range but emotionally enlightening, the instruction resonantly conjugates the way language makes and unmakes us.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
The big questions Whyte talks about — the ones that make or unmake a life — seemed easier to answer.
—Deborah Calmeyer, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2023
Usually, however, reading is fair game, frequently affectionate, and always part of the process by which good drag performances make and unmake gender in real time for their audiences: reading is partially about winning, but partially about an earnest commitment to gender’s fragile unreality.
—Gabriel N. Rosenberg, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
Businesses crafted by public policies, though, can be unmade by them too.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
In World War I, those two forces brought down the Habsburg empire of Hayek’s and Mises’ youth, a catastrophe that unmade their world.
—Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
Alison Murdock, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
In the aftermath, Connor, one of road decommissioning’s foremost pioneers, set to unmaking what her forebears had built.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
The works evoke making and unmaking simultaneously.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
Limited in range but emotionally enlightening, the instruction resonantly conjugates the way language makes and unmakes us.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
The big questions Whyte talks about — the ones that make or unmake a life — seemed easier to answer.
—Deborah Calmeyer, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2023
Usually, however, reading is fair game, frequently affectionate, and always part of the process by which good drag performances make and unmake gender in real time for their audiences: reading is partially about winning, but partially about an earnest commitment to gender’s fragile unreality.
—Gabriel N. Rosenberg, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
Businesses crafted by public policies, though, can be unmade by them too.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
In World War I, those two forces brought down the Habsburg empire of Hayek’s and Mises’ youth, a catastrophe that unmade their world.
—Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
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“Unmake.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmake. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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