How to Use tacit in a Sentence

tacit

adjective
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  • 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
  • Wayne’s tacit endorsement didn’t do a whole lot of good for Trump.
    — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The tacit competition was who can work the longest, the hardest, and, in exchange, be the most self-righteous about it.
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • And a skilled craftsperson may have tacit knowledge of their craft that is never written down.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • Former Vice President Mike Pence came down to meet with her at one point, a tacit sign of support.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Henry had been dealing drugs in prison, with Paulie’s tacit approval.
    — New York Times, 25 July 2022
  • 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
  • The Nickelodeon collab feels like a tacit admission from the N.F.L. that football is under threat.
    — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The West’s fixation on the war in Ukraine stands in contrast with its tacit disregard for the situation in Afghanistan.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • China’s tacit recognition of the junta has proved to matter more.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Russia and the West could reach an agreement — formal or tacit — that forestalls a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
    — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • And that gave Richards tacit permission to be as careless as the moment demanded.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 4 July 2019
  • To try and make amends for their tacit support of this administration.
    — Nicole Chung, Longreads, 28 Sep. 2017
  • My grandfather was born in Ukraine, but there has always been a tacit rejection of this fact in the family.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Asked whether his facility could serve as a backdrop for the next James Bond flick, Swenson gave a tacit chuckle.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2022
  • Rarely has such tacit disrespect been shown to an NFL receiving corps.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • But Sheehan has been typecast, with his tacit approval.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023

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