as in tacit
understood although not put into words
an unspoken promise to remain faithful to one another
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Recent Examples of unspoken
For decades, blue states had quietly subsidized red ones, in an unspoken exchange that once passed for national unity.
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Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2026
The trailer shows the fractured relationships and unspoken truths from the previous season.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Jan. 2026
Maybe there’s some wink-winking, nudge-nudging going on, with one side or the other assuming an unspoken deal has been cut.
—John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 4 Jan. 2026
The unspoken question of sustainability hung in the air — as in, had Vandy finally turned an athletic corner, or would these wins be short lived?
—Andrea Williams, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Dec. 2025
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However, ethical leadership requires a clear boundary between policy disagreement and the normalization — or tacit justification — of violence.—
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Fine has recently drawn scrutiny for seemingly receiving the tacit backing of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has pressured another Jewish candidate, Bruce Leon, to leave the race, according to Leon.—
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Whren’s most fundamental error was the Court’s implicit assumption that malicious intent by law-enforcement officers was a rare subset of justified traffic stops.—
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Yet the implicit presence of ‘The Whitsun Weddings,’ the precise dating of István’s wall-punching to the Pentecost weekend—these things tell us that while the prose may be on starvation rations, the novel itself is not.—
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“Unspoken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspoken. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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