unspoken

Example Sentences

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Same as Harold, my unspoken and maybe even unknown goal was life, but a better one.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2026

"It's also a film about the transmission of generational trauma across three generations in a family, and how taboos, unspoken things and secrets travel."

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

But Takaichi has declined to retract her remarks, saying she was only stating longstanding, if largely unspoken, Japanese policy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

He says there are the official rules, then there are further unspoken rules: "It's really difficult to know what the boundaries are, they are forever shifting."

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

She can sense the unspoken rules, all right.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti