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.
  • His tours are tacit reminders that, for some people, the past is still the present.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2025
  • That was viewed at the time as a tacit admission that the account was his.
    — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 23 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Even that feels like a tacit acknowledgement of how long ago season four aired.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • And a skilled craftsperson may have tacit knowledge of their craft that is never written down.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • And the sort of tacit promise of that, is that whoever’s under you will have to go through the same thing.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Henry had been dealing drugs in prison, with Paulie’s tacit approval.
    — New York Times, 25 July 2022
  • Why does the opening of a cardboard box give me tacit permission to act like a sociopath?
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
  • That would rely on the tacit support of other parties and would be prone to collapse.
    — Hilary Clarke, CNN, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The human analogue is called tacit knowledge.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • There was a tacit camaraderie among the retail and food service workers at the mall.
    — Angella Choe, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Its tacit assumption seems to be that the highest human virtues are manly ones.
    — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • To try and make amends for their tacit support of this administration.
    — Nicole Chung, Longreads, 28 Sep. 2017
  • In short, the tacit dress code was ultra-ultra-pinpoint hip, but effortless!
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • China’s tacit recognition of the junta has proved to matter more.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • For some, the moment felt less like a musical reunion than a tacit endorsement.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2026
  • So perhaps the triple recap at the top of episode five is the show’s tacit blessing to skip over the first half of the series entirely?
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
  • There’s a tacit humility to that answer.
    — Thomas Drance, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • 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 that gave Richards tacit permission to be as careless as the moment demanded.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 4 July 2019
  • 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
  • Vodolazkin has become a master at using his own life and identity to offer tacit support to this belief.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • 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

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