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
Commonsense reasoning, while partially approximated in large language models, is often brittle or overly literal, failing to capture the tacit knowledge humans rely on instinctively.
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Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
But the constant line mixing this season is a tacit admission that the Hawks haven’t surrounded him with the right pieces to compliment him.
—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
The 93-year-old Talese was one of the first guests in the door and seemed to be locked in a tacit endurance competition with Martha Stewart—both of whom outlasted the crop of twentysomethings in attendance.
—Daniel Paik, Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
This tacit knowledge, previously transferable only through personal mentoring, can now be scaled across the entire organization.
—Vitaliy Tymoshenko, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
But the constant line mixing this season is a tacit admission that the Hawks haven’t surrounded him with the right pieces to compliment him.
—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
The 93-year-old Talese was one of the first guests in the door and seemed to be locked in a tacit endurance competition with Martha Stewart—both of whom outlasted the crop of twentysomethings in attendance.
—Daniel Paik, Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
This tacit knowledge, previously transferable only through personal mentoring, can now be scaled across the entire organization.
—Vitaliy Tymoshenko, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tacit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tacit
Adjective
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The days before the storied conclave May 7 at the Vatican are not idle, and an unspoken selection process is already underway amid whispers in corridors and cafes throughout Rome and other cities in Italy.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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In many organizations, there’s an unspoken perception that time spent chatting—especially in remote settings—equates to being unproductive.—
Toyna Chin,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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And that’s to say nothing of the movement’s implicit (and explicit) white-supremacist nostalgia, a grim nod to the dairy industry’s less-than-spotless past.—
HubSpot,
HubSpot,
2 May 2025
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Besides matter-of-factness, hard work – regardless of age – is implicit in farming.—
John Klar,
Christian Science Monitor,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Tacit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tacit. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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