as in unspoken
understood although not put into words
an unvoiced promise to be waiting for him when he returned from the war
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Recent Examples of unvoiced
There was fear unvoiced: Could there have been a mountain lion or a human perpetrator?
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Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
Before the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, concerns about financial oversight went unvoiced.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
Later, it was revealed that Batman was a clone, and the character did return, but in an unvoiced cutscene.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
To produce a biophonic call combination, an animal must make a voiced and unvoiced noise at the same time, reports the Telegraph’s Joe Pinkstone.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
That battle grows even more difficult after Rhaenyra’s children are fathered by a man who isn’t her husband, an unvoiced scandal that Viserys refuses to acknowledge.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 25 May 2023
There were even signs of a troubling advance into more delicate parts of the anatomy, which seemed to breach some unvoiced code between sickness and host: surely to go there was a step too far.
—Aaron Timms, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
In order to put Patrick in the right mind-set, Nathan pulls an elaborate prank involving a rehearsal actor and his ostensible real life (which is actually staged); here, too, Patrick’s response to an apparent absurdity, let alone a deception, goes unvoiced.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022
Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
Before the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, concerns about financial oversight went unvoiced.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
Later, it was revealed that Batman was a clone, and the character did return, but in an unvoiced cutscene.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
To produce a biophonic call combination, an animal must make a voiced and unvoiced noise at the same time, reports the Telegraph’s Joe Pinkstone.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
That battle grows even more difficult after Rhaenyra’s children are fathered by a man who isn’t her husband, an unvoiced scandal that Viserys refuses to acknowledge.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 25 May 2023
There were even signs of a troubling advance into more delicate parts of the anatomy, which seemed to breach some unvoiced code between sickness and host: surely to go there was a step too far.
—Aaron Timms, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
In order to put Patrick in the right mind-set, Nathan pulls an elaborate prank involving a rehearsal actor and his ostensible real life (which is actually staged); here, too, Patrick’s response to an apparent absurdity, let alone a deception, goes unvoiced.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unvoiced
Adjective
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In modern organizations, best practices now function less as guidance and more as aesthetic norms, unspoken expectations about how serious organizations are supposed to look, sound, and behave.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Mar. 2026
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At the same time, the biography gestures at what remained unspoken and inadmissible in Blume’s childhood.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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During the trial, to prove implied malice, prosecutors presented evidence of Grossman’s history of speeding.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Unvoiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unvoiced. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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