unstated
Example Sentences
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Take an area in which the unstated rejection of just-war theory has made it difficult to notice moral distinctions in how wars are fought.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Effective today it is not just a point of contention, it is a sin, to be ferreted out through rumor and whisper, to be punished by reprisals, unstated but ever present.
From Slate • Jan. 23, 2025
Away from the economics, there was also some unstated politics.
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2024
What are its rules, both stated and unstated?
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024
It would explain the change in Julia, certainly, and might even explain Holmes’s sale of the pharmacy—an unstated trade: the store in exchange for Julia.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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