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
The report says experience and tacit knowledge are becoming crucial buffers against displacement as AI tools excel at replacing book learning over job-specific, hard-to-codify skills.
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Yet expert humans often bring something that today’s AI models cannot: situational context, tacit knowledge, ethical intuition, emotional intelligence, and the ability to weigh consequences that fall outside the data.
—David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Yet expert humans often bring something that today’s AI models cannot: situational context, tacit knowledge, ethical intuition, emotional intelligence, and the ability to weigh consequences that fall outside the data.
—David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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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 13 Sep. 2025.
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