Why can't I uninstall node with homebrew?

I’m on a MacBook running MacOS 12.6.1
I’m trying to uninstall node. But its not working.
How can I fix this?

See the output below:

% node -v
v14.21.3

% which node
/opt/homebrew/opt/node@14/bin/node

% ls -al /opt/homebrew/opt/node@14
lrwxr-xr-x  1 me  admin  25 Mar  6 21:26 /opt/homebrew/opt/node@14 -> ../Cellar/node@14/14.21.3

% brew uninstall node --force
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json
######################################################################## 100.0%

% which node
/opt/homebrew/opt/node@14/bin/node

% node -v
v14.21.3

>Solution :

You have version node@14 installed, which is different from the regular node formula.

brew uninstall node@14

Should do the trick.

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