stateverbformal
Misunderstandings can often be caused by unstated assumptions.
The unstated aim is to isolate dissenters.
It is possible that there are unstated military aims.
They have one simple goal, albeit unstated: to minimize risk and maximize profits.
These were the categories for marital status: single; married; separated, widowed, or divorced; and unstated.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Secrecy and privacy
anonymity
anonymization
anonymize
anonymous
anonymously
cryptography
data protection
dead men tell no talesidiom
dissimulate
dissimulation
official secret
on the quietidiom
privacy
privacy settings
private
under the tableidiom
under wrapsidiom
undisclosed
unrevealed
unsourced

Examples of unstated

unstated
Among female roles, the proportion with an unstated marital status was not as large as for male roles (38 per cent).
Evidence is presented of poor recall of unstated meaning, concomitant with a lack of knowledge of the requisite schematic structure.
For an unstated reason, this may be said to lead to the conclusion that law should not regulate in these areas.
In other words, the patient has successfully ' decoded ' his interlocutor's unstated intentions.
It is therefore suggested that formal instruction on the requisite structure will enhance learner recall of unstated meaning.
One feature often attacked in the chapter 2 formulation of the ontological argument is the unstated premise that existence is a great-making property.
Although unstated, colonial intervention plays a significant role in his portrayal.
That point was sufficiently clear, if often unstated, before 1992.
And the third is between explicit contracts (whether written or not), and implicit contracts in the form of unstated understandings.
But there is a large unstated assumption implied in the very framing of this consciousness question.
Typically, these deep-seated moral commitments are unstated assumptions in people's accepting the value of cultural competence.
However, in their quest for the most general invariant satisfying such relations they make some unstated assumptions.
My point is that such estimates are only as good as the set of (unstated) assumptions implicit in the original choice of model specification.
Rates are higher still among men of unstated occupation, probably many of whom were unemployed.
They argue that this assumption, ' ' rests on the empirical validity of three premises which the authors have left unstated and therefore unexamined.
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