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
McGee gets Vance’s tacit approval to work toward bringing down Deputy Director LaRoche.
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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2025
The president enjoyed the direct and tacit endorsement of many of America's most influential business leaders prior to his inauguration.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Trump is set to visit the UK on a second state visit soon; this time, the invitation from King Charles III was gleefully unfurled by Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, in the White House, and was met with tacit acceptance back home.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025
Not even Salvadorans dared visit these at night; most complied with a tacit curfew the gangs had imposed.
—Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2025
The president enjoyed the direct and tacit endorsement of many of America's most influential business leaders prior to his inauguration.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Trump is set to visit the UK on a second state visit soon; this time, the invitation from King Charles III was gleefully unfurled by Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, in the White House, and was met with tacit acceptance back home.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025
Not even Salvadorans dared visit these at night; most complied with a tacit curfew the gangs had imposed.
—Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tacit
Adjective
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Here are two compliments that seem generous on the surface, but may carry unspoken terms that could be conditioning you to stay small in order to stay loved.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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The game was governed by specific rules, unspoken etiquette, superstitions, and a complicated scoring system.—
Nicole Wong,
Vogue,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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That effort has also involved working to build student-teacher relationships, offering alternative forms of discipline, training educators on implicit bias implicit-bias and using restorative-justice coaches to help improve conflict resolution.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 May 2025
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Uncovering implicit expertise through historical data analysis, revealing hidden strengths.—
Pramod Konandur Prabhakar,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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“Tacit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tacit. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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