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
• The provision of a form is not a tacit approval to vote.
  — Tom Norton, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• 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
• All this talk of a new lightweight fighter program is, on the Air Force’s part, a tacit admission that the F-35 has failed.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 26 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
• 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
• In 2012, Ron Paul formed a tacit strategic alliance with Mitt Romney.
  — Charlotte Alter, Time, 11 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The United States and Britain have accused Iran of sabotaging six tankers in a tacit threat to gulf shipping routes.
  — Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 20 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
• There is tacit acceptance from Vector that some of this resembles a video game.
  — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
• High engagement on platforms like LinkedIn also serves as a tacit form of social proof, which compounds over time.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024