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 this happens, America should back their efforts with continued military action because doing otherwise would function, in effect, as tacit support for the Iranian regime.
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Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2026
The human analogue is called tacit knowledge.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Expertise is unevenly distributed and often tacit rather than codified.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
The joint statement from September suggested the US continues to give Japan a tacit green light to intervene in currency markets during times of excess volatility.
—Erica Yokoyama, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026
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Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2026
The human analogue is called tacit knowledge.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Expertise is unevenly distributed and often tacit rather than codified.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
The joint statement from September suggested the US continues to give Japan a tacit green light to intervene in currency markets during times of excess volatility.
—Erica Yokoyama, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tacit
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Such was the case at the annual Commonwealth Day service on March 9, where William and Kate returned to their wedding venue, Westminster Abbey, and the future queen snuck in subtle PDA towards her husband, placing a hand on his back in an unspoken gesture of support.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
11 Mar. 2026
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But an unspoken gospel lingers throughout the book.—
Jasna Hodžić,
Big Think,
10 Mar. 2026
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The implicit message is that any adversary threatening Israel’s survival would risk catastrophic retaliation.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Mar. 2026
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Advocacy groups for missing children argue that for a host of reasons, including implicit and explicit racial bias, Black children who go missing are disproportionately labeled as runaways.—
Itay Ravid,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Tacit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tacit. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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