unstated

Example Sentences

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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

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

"But there's another, more pernicious goal driving these bills that might well succeed politically precisely because it remains largely unstated," Sargent continued.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2023

He leaned there, looking at us all with a remote aloofness in which I sensed an unstated questioning beneath a friendly charm.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison