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Recent Examples of unarticulated
The stats are so much more concrete than my internal, unarticulated writerly goals.
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
9 Jan. 2026
Young spoke with Variety about the unarticulated rivalry that the Lost Boys have with one another, playing an adult with the mind of a child and working with a real-life sheep while staging his character’s grisly demise.
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Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
Lately, pop music has become even more reliant on visual shorthand, a series of unarticulated but essential codes, an unspoken, IYKYK insularity.
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Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
2 Dec. 2024
What will customers want from us that today remain unarticulated?
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Robert B. Tucker,
Forbes,
25 Nov. 2024
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
9 Jan. 2026
Young spoke with Variety about the unarticulated rivalry that the Lost Boys have with one another, playing an adult with the mind of a child and working with a real-life sheep while staging his character’s grisly demise.
—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
Lately, pop music has become even more reliant on visual shorthand, a series of unarticulated but essential codes, an unspoken, IYKYK insularity.
—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
2 Dec. 2024
What will customers want from us that today remain unarticulated?
—
Robert B. Tucker,
Forbes,
25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unarticulated
Adjective
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The reflex, from a distance, is to call this irrational.
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If people believe regulatory caution invalidates every legal claim, courts may look irrational.
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If these requirements are not met, the search is unreasonable and therefore unlawful, and evidence obtained in that search cannot be used in court, barring a good-faith exception.
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Justices ruled that sweeping use of cellphone data requires a warrant, a decision applying the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, to new technology.
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In spite of D'Arcy's best efforts, Rhaenyra is an impenetrable character with illogical choices and zero magnetism to the viewers (or seemingly, her councilors).
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On the outside, firing the coach of a first-place team seemed illogical.
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Blending historical facts and patriotic myths, the works offer a vibrant, playful and sometimes absurd look at events like the signing of the Declaration of Independence and Washington crossing the Delaware.
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As tensions rise and panic sets in, the sisters are forced into a painful and increasingly absurd fight for survival before the homeowner returns.
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Writing was a corrective to my reality, which felt incoherent.
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However, his second wife, Alicent Hightower (played as a young girl by Emily Carey and as an adult by Olivia Cooke), interprets his incoherent dying words as a change of heart in favor of her son, Aegon II Targaryen (played as a child by Ty Tennant and as an adult by Tom Glynn-Carney).
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Even the most memorable new character, Forky (Tony Hale)—an endearingly daffy piece of plastic cutlery with a tendency toward self-harm—could only reinforce the sense that we were being served a load of flimsy, disposable goods.
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The show's daffy, big-hearted mother hen revealed to TV Insider that fans can expect a torrent of emotions this season.
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Given some of Trump’s most problematic remarks about Ukraine, this hope may not have been completely fatuous.
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The fatuous Fed/1930s narrative raises a basic question: why are successful investors paid so well?
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Measuring Sanskrit-era medicine by modern Western standards is obviously hard, if not nonsensical.
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That’s nothing more than a nonsensical, demonizing political narrative spewed by left-wing politicians and their brethren in the progressive chattering class.
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“Unarticulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unarticulated. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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