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
There’s this unspoken expectation in our friendships that showing up means spending up.
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Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 19 Oct. 2025
Rallo lays out the unspoken rules (throw out your jeans from college, and don’t feel bad about Irish exiting) that make the decade easier, as well as pointers for cultivating a creative life.
—Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2025
Drawing from her own experiences as a survivor, Nathaniel tackles the often-unspoken issue of child harassment head-on.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Dunst and Tatum are terrific together, particularly in moments where things are left unsaid, unspoken confessions, apologies and forgiveness coursing between them.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2025
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Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 19 Oct. 2025
Rallo lays out the unspoken rules (throw out your jeans from college, and don’t feel bad about Irish exiting) that make the decade easier, as well as pointers for cultivating a creative life.
—Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2025
Drawing from her own experiences as a survivor, Nathaniel tackles the often-unspoken issue of child harassment head-on.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Dunst and Tatum are terrific together, particularly in moments where things are left unsaid, unspoken confessions, apologies and forgiveness coursing between them.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspoken
Adjective
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In the past two decades, self-expression has become a tacit expectation in many white-collar workplaces, with dress codes relaxing and companies professing interest in their employees’ lives and values.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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And the sort of tacit promise of that, is that whoever’s under you will have to go through the same thing.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The wider societal implications are implicit in Anniversary, if also open to interpretation in a Rorschach-test way.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
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All these businesses were banking on connectivity getting better and better with every passing year — a kind of implicit determinism that reminded me of other beliefs, such as the one that house prices could only ever go up, or the one that the economy would always grow in the long run.—
Samanth Subramanian,
The Dial,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Unspoken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspoken. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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