unstated

Example Sentences

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The unstated goal has been to delay a moment of final legal reckoning for as long as possible.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2024

What are its rules, both stated and unstated?

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024

Whether this violates any parameters of their marriage is left unstated in a present-tense story that’s refreshingly uninterested in overexplaining itself, its characters and their backstories.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2023

They also have a clear, if unstated goal: to regulate their own advertising before the government might step in and do it for them.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023

And all three differ from self-conscious, relativistic, ironic, or postmodern styles, in which “the writer’s chief, if unstated, concern is to escape being convicted of philosophical naivete about his own enterprise.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker