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
If Powell doesn’t push back at market expectations for a September rate cut, investors will likely interpret it as tacit confirmation such a move is likely, Millar said.
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Paul Davidson, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
This escalates diplomatic tensions as countries deny their citizens are involved and face accusations of direct state sponsorship or tacit approval of Putin's aggression.
—Brendan Cole
john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
Against the tacit assumption in the wider culture that Americans must always meet on the battleground of their differences, Litt puts forward the idea that relationships which establish common ground later on can support negotiating ideological differences.
—Air Mail, 2 Aug. 2025
At Trump’s inauguration, Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives stood behind him, offering a tacit show of support for his administration.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025
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Paul Davidson, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
This escalates diplomatic tensions as countries deny their citizens are involved and face accusations of direct state sponsorship or tacit approval of Putin's aggression.
—Brendan Cole
john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
Against the tacit assumption in the wider culture that Americans must always meet on the battleground of their differences, Litt puts forward the idea that relationships which establish common ground later on can support negotiating ideological differences.
—Air Mail, 2 Aug. 2025
At Trump’s inauguration, Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives stood behind him, offering a tacit show of support for his administration.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tacit
Adjective
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How many other unspoken desires could take shape there?—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
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As organizations slash jobs for animation, there is an unspoken expectation that the survivors should be delivering at machine pace.—
Jason Walker PsyD,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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At some point, the competition will turn up, and in any discussion of mobile music and the implicit pairing to a smartphone, there is a rather large elephant in the room.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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The implicit argument was that Washington was, in popular memory at least, pure of spirit, so his monument must be pure of form.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Tacit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tacit. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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