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Left unsaid: lawyers who ignore a judge seldom fare well.—Philip Elliott, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025 Seek Feedback On Your Blind Spots As A Leader
HR leaders must train themselves to read between the lines—true emotional intelligence is not just reacting to what is said but understanding what is left unsaid.—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025 And yet, as verbose as the movie can be (and in some sense, needs to be, as a corrective to decades of misinformation), what goes unsaid is just as powerful.—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025 What is going unsaid here is that Leon needs to improve the defensive side of his game.—Jack Lang, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unsaid
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First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of unsaid was
before the 12th century
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