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  • verb Present participle of unset.

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Examples

  • "When my wife was a child, she and her siblings would go to the beach, watch the sun set, and then run up the hill really rapidly, 'unsetting' the sun so they then could watch the sun set again," Alley wrote in an e-mail to LiveScience.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The vine thickened as it grew, strong roots visibly churning their way outward beneath the ground, some erupting in the canal proper, some unsetting the underbrush lining the edge of the forest that traced the shoreline.

    365 tomorrows » 2007 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

  • In the version I've heard (there is more than one) girls walked around a table backwards, (setting or unsetting it one piece at a time as they went) without saying a word.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Casey 2009

  • In the version I've heard (there is more than one) girls walked around a table backwards, (setting or unsetting it one piece at a time as they went) without saying a word.

    Friday the 13th and Valentine's Day...and last minute give away Lori Devoti 2009

  • It might be just as much of a long shot as unsetting Goode!

    Waldo Jaquith - On primaries. 2006

  • It was unsetting and terrifying to sit among people whom may receive news that could very well change their lives forever.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Cameroon Kate 2007

  • It was unsetting and terrifying to sit among people whom may receive news that could very well change their lives forever.

    October 12 Cameroon Kate 2007

  • Pilots were supposed to keep the plane as level and steady as possible on the bomb run, but as a classified Air Force report noted, excitable pilots often took violent evasive action under fire, unsetting the sensitive gyroscopes on the Norden bombsights.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • Pilots were supposed to keep the plane as level and steady as possible on the bomb run, but as a classified Air Force report noted, excitable pilots often took violent evasive action under fire, unsetting the sensitive gyroscopes on the Norden bombsights.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • ROBERTA ADAMS, SISTER OF MISSING LESLIE ADAMS: Well, it was -- it ` s unsetting because, you know, I feel like, you know, now things are becoming uncovered.

    CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2005 2005

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