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unspoken

[uhn-spoh-kuhn] / ʌnˈspoʊ kən /


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I wonder whether there’s an unspoken rule that friendship with people like this comes with an obligation to live like them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

She points to the unspoken kinship that forms when Black fans who love heavier guitar music find each other in white-dominated crowds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Yet children often sense the emotional weight regardless, even when the story itself remains unspoken.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

An unspoken sense of human deflation is at work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

So it was from a look of Dad's and a sentence left unspoken that the sequel to the turtle habit got started.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg




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