How to Use unstated in a Sentence

unstated

adjective
  • Fang sensed their unstated wish for a son, but her mother gave birth to a girl – her third.
    — Joyce Jiang, CNN, 18 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • This was the unstated but clear goal of the Clean Power Plan.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
  • But there may also be other unstated factors at play, experts say.
    — NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The unstated reason, of course, is management’s desire to boost their stock price.
    — Julie Goldenberg, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The legacy of this unstated agreement remains potent to this day.
    — José Ciro Martínez, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 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 premise underlying this demand, of course, is flawed.
    — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 30 July 2019
  • Young is seeking an unstated amount of punitive, presumed, and other damages in the lawsuit.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Buried in much of this discourse is an unstated assumption that the real ideologues are on the other side.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 12 May 2025
  • As the popular phrase goes, the ghost in the room (not the elephant) refers to an unstated but influential factor.
    — John Cairney, Sportico.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The unstated reason was the same one Alleva shouldn’t survive on the job one working day longer.
    — Andrew Astleford, ajc, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Hinchman followed up on his unstated critique of Brooks in an interview after his speech.
    — Paul Gattis, AL.com, 18 May 2017
  • Though the conclusion goes unstated, for diplomatic reasons, the fact is that the rocket likely crashed.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Feb. 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
  • Redd opted not to run for mayor again with the unstated but obvious expectation that a new public job would soon be made available to her.
    — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Often left unstated is that this means a worsening of climate change — even as the world continues to experience its hottest year on record.
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The unstated ones are probably more important.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The obvious but unstated reason for this requirement is so that the union can ensure that agents are not taking advantage of their player-clients.
    — Chris Deubert, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
  • That is a bureaucratic way of saying that the US will punish attackers in an unstated form.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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