unstated
/ʌnˈsteɪtɪd/
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American sound/ʌnˈsteɪtɪd/
ʌnˈsteɪtɪd
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ʌn - ˈsteɪtɪd -> unstated
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- ‘His official job was to accept his party's nomination, but the grand, unstated task was to make himself liked by people who were inclined not to like him.’
- ‘The last of the unstated reasons, however, is by far the worst.’
- ‘And it is a criterion that carries within it an unstated assumption about what causes psychiatric injury.’
- ‘This particular article is for that breed of people who congratulate themselves that they live by an undefined, unstated code of ethics.’
- ‘The unstated assumption seems to be that people who work for the church should expect to be poorly paid.’
- ‘In any case, Pang et al. may have unknowingly found an unstated risk for hospital birth of having a mildly premature baby.’
- ‘The notion that there might be some reasonable explanation for that policy - stopping the bombers from getting through - was left unstated.’
- ‘And the unstated goal was not simply to attract a higher number of viewers.’
- ‘The public version of the document left unstated the implied threat of using nuclear weapons to strike first against weapons of mass destruction.’
- ‘Are there double standards, e.g., one set of stated rules yet unstated exceptions for certain people?’
- ‘By embedding hundreds of journalists, the brass had sent the unstated message that it was OK to be honest.’
- ‘The TV licensing adverts make the clear but unstated implication that anyone who does not have a licence is breaking the law.’
- ‘Although often unstated, there is a powerful academic norm which says that what is said in the classroom stays in the classroom.’
- ‘Much of this branch of your argument proceeds from unstated assumptions about the content of the ‘once and for all’ rule.’
- ‘Yet another unstated assumption is that the only way to prevent aircraft crashing into populated areas is by regulation.’
- ‘Undeniably, many of these theatres are only barely abiding by unstated policies requiring them to screen a minimum amount of Canadian work.’
- ‘An unstated portion of these gains were in part-time employment.’
- ‘There was an unstated implication that this was acceptable and useful.’
- ‘But the word ‘commercial’ in that context is simply pregnant with unstated assumptions.’
- ‘If anything there was sympathy for libraries and their staff, allied to a vague if unstated belief that they deserved better.’
Synonyms
unspecified, unspoken, tacit, understood, implicit, assumed, unsaid, accepted, alluded to, allusive, appreciated, axiomatic, down pat, hinted at, implied, inarticulate, indirect, inferential, inferred, intimated, invoiced, known, left to the imagination, mute, not said, on to, pat, presumed, roger, silenced, silent, suggested, taken for granted, undeclared, unexpressed, unuttered, unvoiced, wise to, wordless
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