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
Not just the pressure on the court, but the unspoken pressure to remain undefeated and continue to make history.
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Butch Hart, Austin American Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026
These days that's more unspoken.
—Esther Zuckerman, Vanity Fair, 3 Mar. 2026
Sisters Mya and Ashlee Wilson, who play for the Hill-Murray girls basketball team, have an unspoken connection.
—Marielle Mohs, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
Part of being in a family is the unspoken feeling of sharing a common plight.
—Brian Barth, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
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Butch Hart, Austin American Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026
These days that's more unspoken.
—Esther Zuckerman, Vanity Fair, 3 Mar. 2026
Sisters Mya and Ashlee Wilson, who play for the Hill-Murray girls basketball team, have an unspoken connection.
—Marielle Mohs, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
Part of being in a family is the unspoken feeling of sharing a common plight.
—Brian Barth, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspoken
Adjective
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Organizers seem to have given tacit approval to their return, with Artnet suggesting the shift in stance follows the appointment of a right-wing journalist as Biennale president.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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But satisfaction over the tacit recognition of Ukraine's air defense expertise has been tempered by dwindling Western interceptor stockpiles in the Middle East — supplies that many in Ukraine had hoped might eventually make their way to Kyiv.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The implicit message is that any adversary threatening Israel’s survival would risk catastrophic retaliation.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Mar. 2026
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Advocacy groups for missing children argue that for a host of reasons, including implicit and explicit racial bias, Black children who go missing are disproportionately labeled as runaways.—
Itay Ravid,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Unspoken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspoken. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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