unstated
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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
Unknown to Wolf, Reubens, who sat for 40 hours of interviews before withdrawing from the project for unstated reasons in the film, had been sick with a blood cancer for six years.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
Harold Shipman changed an "unstated norm" around end of life care, veteran Tory Sir David Davis said during a parliamentary debate on assisted dying.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2024
What are its rules, both stated and unstated?
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024
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
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