How to Use unstated in a Sentence

unstated

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• This was the unstated but clear goal of the Clean Power Plan.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
• The hope, unstated but present, comes from the sense that the longtime friends might, in fact, rekindle the old.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019
• This speaks to the second, unstated, motive—to cut the size of these programmes.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• Left unstated in the Russian press is that SpaceX is unlikely to stand still between now and 2021.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2017
• What the U.S. would do if the Council failed to act, however, was mostly left unstated.
  — George Russell, Fox News, 6 June 2017
• The second of course is something that is unstated largely.
  — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2019
• The unstated premise of a policy like YouTube’s is that, in the year 2022, there are a meaningful number of people out there who would have been.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
• The internet’s unstated, vanquished opponent is us, the users who both consume and are the butts of the memes that phrase is often a response to.
  — Zak Jason, Wired, 24 Sep. 2021
• The unstated subtext of the stories blaming Miller is that Trump doesn’t understand the policy well enough to do that.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
• Too many crucial elements are left unstated for the film to work as an introduction to the band.
  — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
• The unstated reason was the same one Alleva shouldn’t survive on the job one working day longer.
  — Andrew Astleford, ajc, 3 Oct. 2017
• The legacy of this unstated agreement remains potent to this day.
  — José Ciro Martínez, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• Also hanging in the air but unstated is the reality that Abbas might not be around for long enough to conclude a peace deal.
  — chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
• How the unstated yoke of religion framed the need to declare one’s guilt up-front in the midst of a cultural catharsis, as a way of excusing action.
  — George McCalman, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• The unstated purpose of both the city and state actions might have been to make the case moot and deny conservatives on the court a chance to explore whether there is a right to carry a gun outside the home.
  — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2020
• Left unstated is whether that line of reasoning would require a consumer to brew 110 cups at a time in a commercial-sized urn to achieve the advertised yield.
  — Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• So the 60-year-old Aldridge insists; his unstated premise is that one who does good work will thereby build a reputation and ensure a legacy.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2017
• Though the conclusion goes unstated, for diplomatic reasons, the fact is that the rocket likely crashed.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Feb. 2018
• Young is seeking an unstated amount of punitive, presumed, and other damages in the lawsuit.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2021
• The unstated premise underlying this demand, of course, is flawed.
  — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 30 July 2019
• The marvel of his performance, and of this sweatily evocative coming-of-age drama, stems from a willingness to leave a great deal unstated.
  — Justin Chang, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
• The show’s unstated explanation for this seems to be that Georgiou wants to contain the infectious ideas of the Federation to a very select few.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2018
• Even the movie’s one scene of inspired comedy derives its power from its unstated Christian roots.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 July 2022
• As the argument stands, the conclusion does not follow from the premise—at least not without adding some unstated premises—that is, assumptions.
  — Kevin Chen, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2017
• But too often the rules are unstated, arbitrary, or unfair.
  — Fortune, 24 Nov. 2020
• But for the benefit of the whole, these revelations would have more impact braided into the story — or left unstated.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Sep. 2021
• The new characters and dramas more than suffice, as do the unstated questions placed gently on the playground picnic table.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
• But wait for a second, all this talk about achieving deadlines begs a rather blatant and yet unstated question, namely what happens if there isn’t a deadline at all.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• But there may also be other unstated factors at play, experts say.
  — NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
• Lockheed alleges that subjective and unstated criteria were applied to negate its pricing advantage and thus bias the outcome.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024