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

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

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