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
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
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
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
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