as in unspoken
understood although not put into words
we have a tacit agreement that if I wash the dishes, she dries them and puts them away
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Recent Examples of tacit
Netflix’s decision to offer this role as fully remote is a tacit endorsement of the idea that remote work isn’t just a perk, but a business strategy to attract top talent.
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Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Any sense of safety that once existed in the Qatari capital – a longtime haven for Hamas officials, with the tacit agreement of the US and Israel – has now been shattered.
—Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Otherwise, undergoing surgery is considered tacit acceptance of that price as a baseline.
—Katheryn Houghton, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
The former presidential candidate’s tacit endorsement of Mamdani comes as his mayoral bid has divided the party’s leaders, with some still withholding the endorsement of the nominee.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 23 Sep. 2025
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Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Any sense of safety that once existed in the Qatari capital – a longtime haven for Hamas officials, with the tacit agreement of the US and Israel – has now been shattered.
—Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Otherwise, undergoing surgery is considered tacit acceptance of that price as a baseline.
—Katheryn Houghton, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
The former presidential candidate’s tacit endorsement of Mamdani comes as his mayoral bid has divided the party’s leaders, with some still withholding the endorsement of the nominee.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tacit
Adjective
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But when one partner earns or has more, unspoken assumptions can creep in.—
Annie Nova,
CNBC,
8 Nov. 2025
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Old wounds, financial matters or unspoken resentments in your one-on-one relationships may need to be revisited, or at the very least reflected upon with a fresh perspective.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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But the confluence of events has given rise to an implicit and at times explicit messianic complex in GOP politics; that God is exclusively working through one party and one person and one nation.—
Abby McCloskey,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
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In that context, a cop asking whether Marissa personally walked Milo into school that morning comes across as both a perfectly reasonable effort to establish a detailed timeline of the boy’s day, and an implicit rebuke of Marissa for merely dropping him off out front.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Tacit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tacit. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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