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Recent Examples of unarticulated
Lately, pop music has become even more reliant on visual shorthand, a series of unarticulated but essential codes, an unspoken, IYKYK insularity.
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Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
What will customers want from us that today remain unarticulated?
—Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
And so his unarticulated loneliness becomes the problem of everybody around him: loyal Jeff, capable Darla, ambitious Louie.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 3 June 2024
Some of them promise to provide what contemporary fiction can do so well: bracing, arresting stories that distill something previously unseen or unarticulated about modern culture.
—Vulture, 28 Aug. 2023
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Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
What will customers want from us that today remain unarticulated?
—Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
And so his unarticulated loneliness becomes the problem of everybody around him: loyal Jeff, capable Darla, ambitious Louie.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 3 June 2024
Some of them promise to provide what contemporary fiction can do so well: bracing, arresting stories that distill something previously unseen or unarticulated about modern culture.
—Vulture, 28 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unarticulated
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Carpenter says the disturbing encounters left her fearful for her safety and that of relatives living with her, as police label the suspect’s fixation irrational and increasingly dangerous.—
Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2026
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Great startups often look irrational at first.—
Anna Demeo,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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However, investing in public institutions and infrastructure is a costly endeavor that can seem unreasonable when local officials are struggling to balance budgets without increasing tax burdens.—
Aneri Pattani,
USA Today,
6 June 2026
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Nineteen recent clinical trials on kratom leaf document no evidence of severe addiction or significant or unreasonable adverse effects.—
Tara Molina,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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He’s made his way into the backrooms and finds that the place keeps going, offering up illogical doorways and holes in the floor.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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Many professional teams pretzel themselves into illogical positions when putting and keeping players on their rosters.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
19 May 2026
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There is always the possibility that something absurd might occur — the equivalent of Neymar’s 2017 move to Paris Saint-Germain, for instance — but that’s extremely unlikely.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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Ironically, the fears of two Republicans advancing were driven by Democratic data vendor Paul Mitchell, who built a prediction machine using absurd inputs like betting odds and polls that cannot account for things like rape allegations.—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
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The Academy knew retroactively grading the crew of a 90-year-old movie would be incoherent.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 May 2026
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In 12 pages of meandering, often incoherent letters addressed to a judge, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh broods over her life in jail and describes desperation.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2026
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That Directors’ Fortnight entry slightly overloaded on farcical complications but breezed along on the script’s daffy humor, its underlying sweetness and the director’s pleasingly light touch.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
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And then there’s the daffy spectacle of the films themselves, with plots beholden to almost avant-garde manipulations of time, space, and reality.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2026
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Given some of Trump’s most problematic remarks about Ukraine, this hope may not have been completely fatuous.—
Daniel Fried,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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The fatuous Fed/1930s narrative raises a basic question: why are successful investors paid so well?—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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Popularized by a beer commercial during the 1986 World Cup, it’s used to rally on teams with its repetitive (albeit nonsensical) syllables as well as its upbeat ending.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
7 June 2026
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But the actors are reduced to joke machines trapped in a nonsensical nonplot, and while some of those gags yield laughs, a far greater number fall flat.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
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“Unarticulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unarticulated. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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