Definitions
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- verb transitive To remove a
star from. - verb transitive, UK, politics To
demote aquestion from anoral one to awritten one (because oral questions are conventionally marked with a star on the Order of Business in theHouse of Commons ).
Etymologies
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un- + star
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Examples
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Note that you have to manually unstar each and every one of those starred items to delete them, even if you delete all your original subscriptions.
Making Light: The lily knows not why it blossoms in the spring 2010
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Gripe #3 – I wish that they would have the star/unstar button right on the list view.
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Having just gone back to Google Maps website, I can now see my starred items shown on the map, and that I can star and unstar locations from the speech bubble.
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At the end of the day, I go through whatever I starred, unstar a bunch of things that at second glance doesn’t seem interesting, and read what is left.
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