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Left unsaid in his plan is that publicly subsidized, affordable housing has become monstrously expensive to construct because the public money triggers rules and process and reviews and negotiations that market-rate housing doesn’t contend with.—Ezra Klein, Mercury News, 29 Nov. 2025 If things have been unsaid, now’s the time to say them.—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 28 Nov. 2025 Left unsaid, of course, was the rift inside the modern Republican Party.—Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Nov. 2025 You’re being pulled behind the curtain to face what’s been left unsaid, Leo.—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unsaid
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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
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