How to Use unsaid in a Sentence
unsaid
adjective
- I think that some things are better left unsaid.
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Each thing said seems to skim above a deep pool of the unsaid.
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Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
8 July 2020
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Left unsaid: whose idea the meeting was in the first place.
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Benjamin Hart,
Daily Intelligencer,
26 May 2018
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Left unsaid: That the rest of the world more or less agreed with Wenner.
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Corey Seymour,
Vogue,
26 Oct. 2017
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This one took him to the top, and there was nothing left unsaid.
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Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
6 Nov. 2022
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This dance between the said and the unsaid, the metaphors of secrets is a marker of their work.
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Callum McLennan,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2023
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The unsaid part is, what would the governments want to say about that?
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WIRED,
13 June 2023
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But perhaps the most notable part of the deal went unsaid.
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Steve Berkowitz,
USA TODAY,
16 Oct. 2021
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What went unsaid was that there was likely to be a lot of tumult in the search.
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Evan Grant,
Dallas News,
3 Oct. 2021
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But there’s so much blank space that’s unfilled and so many things left unsaid.
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August Brown,
latimes.com,
7 June 2019
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Words were said that would have been better left unsaid.
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cleveland,
16 Oct. 2021
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The strength of the movie became everything that went unsaid.
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Nick Romano,
EW.com,
18 Nov. 2022
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The fact that so much of what was once left unsaid or ignored is now coming out of the shadows.
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Anna Silman,
The Cut,
8 Jan. 2018
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No longer could the sides hide behind coded quotes and words left unsaid.
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Andy Staples,
SI.com,
29 Oct. 2017
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For years, the unsaid thing, in the field itself, had been the influence that culture has on the psyche.
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Alexandra Schwartz,
The New Yorker,
16 May 2022
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Dean hasn't reached out, and he hasn't been reached out to, so there's just a lot of unsaid, unhealthy stuff going on.
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Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
17 July 2017
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But the teacher's words can never be unsaid, Agee-Bell said.
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Keith Bierygolick,
Cincinnati.com,
10 Jan. 2018
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The crimes of men with men were proclaimed in courts of justice; the crimes of women with women were left unsaid.
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Longreads,
8 May 2018
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Left unsaid was the effect, if any, of being a younger sibling.
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Andrew Greif,
OregonLive.com,
25 May 2017
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But left unsaid is what, exactly, needs to get done—or why.
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vanityfair.com,
15 Feb. 2017
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What if Lightfoot could say his unsaid goodbye in a dance?
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The New Yorker,
19 June 2022
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The memoir's only flaw is in what is written but what is left unsaid.
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Mary Cadden,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2022
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And as Lindsay might say, such things are best left unsaid, as one sips coffee in the drawing room.
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Rachel Syme,
The New Republic,
22 May 2018
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During the past two years, Concepcion has made dozens and dozens of pieces for his project about things left unsaid.
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Ryan Kost,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Mar. 2022
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What was left unsaid was that Kennedy could have adopted this view in the Wisconsin case but did not.
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David G. Savage,
latimes.com,
18 June 2018
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How giving up sanctions will get Iran to agree to a better deal is left unsaid.
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The Editorial Board,
WSJ,
26 Feb. 2021
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There was nothing left unsaid and nothing left on the table.
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NBC News,
20 Jan. 2022
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What was unsaid, un-shown, unknown was the pull, the gravitational pull of the piece.
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Jodi Guglielmi,
PEOPLE.com,
7 June 2019
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Caillat pauses for a moment to let the circumstances swirling around her mind remain unsaid.
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Tricia Despres,
Peoplemag,
27 Oct. 2023
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Melton is a repository of repressed rage, his every exchange with his wife hinting at the depths of his anguish and everything that has been left unsaid between them.
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Ej Dickson,
Rolling Stone,
23 Jan. 2024
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