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Recent Examples of unarticulated
Some of them promise to provide what contemporary fiction can do so well: bracing, arresting stories that distill something previously unseen or unarticulated about modern culture.
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Vulture, 28 Aug. 2023
Reeve’s Superman was one of my first unarticulated crushes.
—Jay Michaelson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
Like a churchgoer, the Disney visitor is meant to believe, but only within rigid yet unarticulated parameters.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
Remarkably, what feels right has everything to do with what would look right to others—with her sensitivity, however unarticulated, to how others would respond to her.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
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Vulture, 28 Aug. 2023
Reeve’s Superman was one of my first unarticulated crushes.
—Jay Michaelson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
Like a churchgoer, the Disney visitor is meant to believe, but only within rigid yet unarticulated parameters.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
Remarkably, what feels right has everything to do with what would look right to others—with her sensitivity, however unarticulated, to how others would respond to her.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unarticulated
Adjective
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Nothing adds depth to an irascible curmudgeon quite like an irrational love of pets that do not love you back.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
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Our worries are often dismissed as irrational—planes are much safer than cars, etc.—
Elaine Godfrey,
The Atlantic,
6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The policy and specialist support environment is going to need to become more sophisticated, and more responsive to balancing needs and addressing conflict, unfairness and unreasonable requests / restrictions.—
Nancy Doyle,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina who studies organisms and ecosystems in radioactive regions, told the Times that the DOE's explanation that the wasps gathered legacy contamination for their homes is not unreasonable.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The system is confusing, ill-explained and illogical.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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The conference also welcomes back Maryland, which always felt more at home there, and rids itself of its illogical Bay Area/Dallas outposts.—
Jim Root,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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These movies are brilliantly written, but above all will do anything to get a laugh, no matter how silly, how absurd, how ridiculous — how stupid.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Interestingly, the Vance memes were far more surreal and absurd than South Park’s caricature, which retained the simple, bloated design of the first few images.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Donald Trump took a break from serving as the leader of the free world on May 16 to write a borderline incoherent screed against Bruce Springsteen, just after the songwriter blasted him at the inaugural date of his 2025 European tour.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
19 May 2025
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And that a looser, messier, even seemingly incoherent set of choices with respect to point of view comes closer to the experience of consciousness, etc., something, something, non-Western narrative traditions, whatever, OK.—
Book Marks
July 17,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
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Brooks just takes them in some delightfully daffy (and occasionally deeply scary) new directions.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 July 2025
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His performance as daffy himbo Chad Feldheimer in the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading (2008), for example, is an essential entry in his oeuvre.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
3 May 2025
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The fatuous Fed/1930s narrative raises a basic question: why are successful investors paid so well?—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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So although these actions may seem fatuous on the surface, the next four years will be about looking for the undercurrents.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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The question itself was preposterous before the recent streak.—
Greg Cote
July 20,
Miami Herald,
20 July 2025
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Worse, the mystery leads to a preposterous, unsatisfying and predictable resolution.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
17 July 2025
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“Unarticulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unarticulated. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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