unspoken

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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

Alongside this sense of a growing rapprochement with his family is the unspoken expectation that Harry is keeping his head down for a while, avoiding bombshell interviews, not rocking the royal boat.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

There is another unspoken assumption at work here that goes something like this.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson