How to Use unarticulated in a Sentence

unarticulated

adjective
  • The day-to-day takes on an understated eeriness that matches the unarticulated ache of the bereaved.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2022
  • But both men are far more wounded by an unarticulated guilt for their fallen fellow X-Men, and a melancholy for the wreckage of old utopian hopes.
    Jonathan L. Fischer, Slate Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
  • Throughout the evening, thoughts of Lou Reed, mostly unarticulated, hovered around.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 3 May 2017
  • But for Ada, her parents’ silence about their past has created an unarticulated darkness that prompts her, early in the novel, to have a public emotional outburst.
    Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The unarticulated assumption is that the enemy is still Russia.
    The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • So the Miu Miu show identified some previously unarticulated reality about our lives, and revealed it to us.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But there’s still another challenge in science education that is less often recognized: Students often enter a course with their own unarticulated ideas about how the world works.
    Wired, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Anolik sees the influence of Evelyn Waugh as unlocking some hitherto unarticulated aspect of Donna Tartt’s art.
    Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2021
  • When these unarticulated moments build up into arguments, Lea comes off as foolish and unreasonable.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The music grew diffuse, those nuances that detail Dvorak’s fascination with Black musical vernaculars felt unarticulated, and what was supposed to gleam often felt, well, glum.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Economists are divided on the question of if, or to what extent, Americans' often unarticulated feelings about their finances or the economy impact consumer spending.
    Martha C. White For Cnn Business, CNN, 12 Aug. 2022
  • And suddenly all of those previously unarticulated emotions, and their attending accusations, start to fly.
    New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • These illusions are manifestations of Sully’s worst, otherwise mostly unarticulated, fears, like disaster flicks dredged from his depths.
    Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2016
  • Although TikTok’s algorithm likely relies in part, as other systems do, on user history and video-engagement patterns, the app seems remarkably attuned to a person’s unarticulated interests.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • But it also is bound up in some of the worst aspects of our national character: paranoia, our unarticulated antinomianism, our taste for political and religious extremism, and our horrifying addiction to violence.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 31 May 2021
  • My unarticulated suspicions about Asian women being objectified, dehumanized targets have been confirmed.
    Jerrine Tan, Wired, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Its underlying, often unarticulated, faith in some kind of immanent teleological law of progress is still apparently impervious to empirical falsification by actual historical events.
    M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 7 Oct. 2017
  • One unarticulated ingredient of chemistry, perhaps, is complicity.
    Amanda Hess, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019

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