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

Harold Shipman changed an "unstated norm" around end of life care, veteran Tory Sir David Davis said during a parliamentary debate on assisted dying.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2024

"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