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

The unstated goal has been to delay a moment of final legal reckoning for as long as possible.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2024

What are its rules, both stated and unstated?

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024

It would explain the change in Julia, certainly, and might even explain Holmes’s sale of the pharmacy—an unstated trade: the store in exchange for Julia.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson