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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In an incredibly clumsy move to penetrate the Chinese market, Facebook secretly released apps in the country through shell corporations without authorization, but supposedly with the tacit approval of China’s internet regulator.
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Mayhem might scan as the same kind of tacit musical autobiography, or like a Confessions on a Dance Floor, if Gaga didn’t spend the back half disappearing into her peers’ signature moves.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
The moment deepened my sense of my own tacit abetment.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
The plan seems destined to rival the negotiation process that Trump’s administration opened with Russia last month, and suggests a tacit acceptance that bringing Trump and Zelensky to the negotiating table together could result in tensions combusting once more.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 2 Mar. 2025
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Mayhem might scan as the same kind of tacit musical autobiography, or like a Confessions on a Dance Floor, if Gaga didn’t spend the back half disappearing into her peers’ signature moves.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
The moment deepened my sense of my own tacit abetment.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
The plan seems destined to rival the negotiation process that Trump’s administration opened with Russia last month, and suggests a tacit acceptance that bringing Trump and Zelensky to the negotiating table together could result in tensions combusting once more.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 2 Mar. 2025
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