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- verb transitive To
undo theinvention of; tounmake .
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Examples
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Thus, since we believe it is impossible to "uninvent" nuclear weapons or to prevent the clandestine manufacture of some number of them, nuclear weapons seem destined to be the centerpiece of U.S. strategic deterrence for the forseeable [sic] future
MRZine.org 2010
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Budgets are in the hundreds of millions because that is what it costs; i've said it before, but you simply can not 'uninvent' the invented.
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This is what scares me most about technology: you can't uninvent anything.
Where Two or Three Are Gathered You Get Blogroll Fresca 2010
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We can't uninvent the role that we play in the world.
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“But why would Lord Luxon want to uninvent the telephone?”
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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“But why would Lord Luxon want to uninvent the telephone?”
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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Numbers do not uninvent attitudes centuries in the making.
McCain's Lying Has Gone Too Far, According To ... Karl Rove! 2009
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“But why would Lord Luxon want to uninvent the telephone?”
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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“But why would Lord Luxon want to uninvent the telephone?”
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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“But why would Lord Luxon want to uninvent the telephone?”
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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