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
  • Throughout the evening, thoughts of Lou Reed, mostly unarticulated, hovered around.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 3 May 2017
  • The unarticulated assumption is that the enemy is still Russia.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • When these unarticulated moments build up into arguments, Lea comes off as foolish and unreasonable.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Remarkably, what feels right has everything to do with what would look right to others—with her sensitivity, however unarticulated, to how others would respond to her.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • 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
  • Like a churchgoer, the Disney visitor is meant to believe, but only within rigid yet unarticulated parameters.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • And suddenly all of those previously unarticulated emotions, and their attending accusations, start to fly.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • These are the inchoate and unarticulated aspects of the relationship an author offers to us through a book, the parts of the reading experience that provide a kind of psychological mooring for a reader.
    — Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • 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
  • Director Maggie Gyllenhaal readily admits that the idea that Shelley left some piece of the story unarticulated is a fantasy of hers.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That unarticulated but ever-present performative slant colors all of Wiseman’s films, presenting a tension with the director’s unobtrusive and very unhurried style of shooting.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Young spoke with Variety about the unarticulated rivalry that the Lost Boys have with one another, playing an adult with the mind of a child and working with a real-life sheep while staging his character’s grisly demise.
    — Leia Mendoza, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • My unarticulated suspicions about Asian women being objectified, dehumanized targets have been confirmed.
    — Jerrine Tan, Wired, 19 Mar. 2021
  • One unarticulated ingredient of chemistry, perhaps, is complicity.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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

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