How to Use tacit in a Sentence

tacit

adjective

• There was a tacit agreement that he would pay off the loan.
• She felt that she had her parents' tacit approval to borrow the car.
• That was viewed at the time as a tacit admission that the account was his.
  — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 23 Oct. 2017
• What needs to change is the tacit complicity of managers and staff.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• The men drive together for hours, conducting a tacit courtship along the way.
  — Becca Rothfeld, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2018
• There was a tacit camaraderie among the retail and food service workers at the mall.
  — Angella Choe, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
• That would rely on the tacit support of other parties and would be prone to collapse.
  — Hilary Clarke, CNN, 25 Sep. 2017
• And a skilled craftsperson may have tacit knowledge of their craft that is never written down.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2023
• Some physicians and ethicists say that is a tacit admission that the donor might not be legally dead.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Wayne’s tacit endorsement didn’t do a whole lot of good for Trump.
  — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 21 Jan. 2021
• Letting them stay is tacit approval of their actions and a license to repeat.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 11 July 2019
• Its tacit assumption seems to be that the highest human virtues are manly ones.
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2019
• In this view, Iraq is at best an ambivalent partner and at worst a tacit foe.
  — Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023
• The protesters had tacit approval from the city to camp for one night, but were told to vacate the parks by the following morning.
  — oregonlive, 31 Dec. 2019
• To try and make amends for their tacit support of this administration.
  — Nicole Chung, Longreads, 28 Sep. 2017
• The notion that mounting stress constitutes a fact of life—or even a way to thrive—has gained tacit approval.
  — Deepak Chopra, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2017
• China’s tacit recognition of the junta has proved to matter more.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• Yet these measures are a tacit admission that foreign forces are no longer steering the lira.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
• The move is a tacit acknowledgment that the way the company’s algorithms work can be a problem.
  — Filippo Menczer, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2021
• The tacit approval of saying nothing would have spoken volumes.
  — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• There were some small signs of tacit agreement or understanding.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
• The tacit implication was, of course, that there were people for whom such a fate wasn’t so unfair.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
• And that gave Richards tacit permission to be as careless as the moment demanded.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 4 July 2019
• Their behaviour is serving as a tacit green light for future attacks.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2021
• The narrator misses his son keenly, and this longing creates a tacit rift between him and his wife.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• Police and their tacit support endows right wing militias with some of that impunity.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2020
• Henry had been dealing drugs in prison, with Paulie’s tacit approval.
  — New York Times, 25 July 2022
• One pillar of these strategies was a series of both tacit and explicit constraints now known as arms control.
  — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
• This change is a tacit acknowledgment that the problem is more widespread than initially thought.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 14 Oct. 2021
• But Sheehan has been typecast, with his tacit approval.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024