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- a based on custom rather than documentation
an unwritten law
rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"- J.L.T.C.Spence - s using speech rather than writing
- s said or done without having been planned or written in advance
- The latest confrontation with that challenge came late last month in Israel when conductor Daniel Barenboim proposed to defy an unwritten ban on Wagner's works by performing .
- But when fighting Federer, it's a good idea to ditch the game's unwritten rules.
- Our unwritten speech codes require that those words be used only by gays and blacks, respectively (black gays can say both).