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As with every project associated with Sally Rooney, whose 2018 novel the show is based on, Normal People is a moody tapestry of yearning and feelings left maddeningly unsaid.—Stephanie Bai, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026 Also left unsaid is that full-time public school teachers work fewer hours per year compared to workers in the private sector, including time spent on lesson preparation, test construction, grading, providing extra help to students, coaching, and other activities.—Larry Sand, Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026 The response of corporate America to those killings was instructive — both for what was said and left unsaid.—Alessandro Piazza, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026 Instead, symbols, especially flowers, became powerful ways to communicate feelings that might otherwise go unsaid.—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unsaid
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of unsaid was
before the 12th century