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But because the principle remains unformulated, other cases will come to the court lacking the sort of convenient escape hatch that the court found in the commission’s loose lips.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2018

A set of unformulated and unconscious rules and ways of behavior that every member of a given society nonetheless immediately recognizes and accepts?

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2015

Later in the week the White House announced that Reagan was considering a limited and as yet unformulated plan to speed up Government construction projects in order to create more jobs.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Wordsworth this took the form of an unbroken dreaming over the aspects and transitions of nature, a reflective, but altogether unformulated, analysis of them.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

He had, too, beyond this, some unformulated recognition of a service and a worship that here he was called on to pay.

From The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Walpole, Hugh, Sir