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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Recent Examples of tacit
Commonsense reasoning, while partially approximated in large language models, is often brittle or overly literal, failing to capture the tacit knowledge humans rely on instinctively.
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Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
But the constant line mixing this season is a tacit admission that the Hawks haven’t surrounded him with the right pieces to compliment him.
—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
The 93-year-old Talese was one of the first guests in the door and seemed to be locked in a tacit endurance competition with Martha Stewart—both of whom outlasted the crop of twentysomethings in attendance.
—Daniel Paik, Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
This tacit knowledge, previously transferable only through personal mentoring, can now be scaled across the entire organization.
—Vitaliy Tymoshenko, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
But the constant line mixing this season is a tacit admission that the Hawks haven’t surrounded him with the right pieces to compliment him.
—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
The 93-year-old Talese was one of the first guests in the door and seemed to be locked in a tacit endurance competition with Martha Stewart—both of whom outlasted the crop of twentysomethings in attendance.
—Daniel Paik, Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
This tacit knowledge, previously transferable only through personal mentoring, can now be scaled across the entire organization.
—Vitaliy Tymoshenko, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tacit
Adjective
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What to do with a passenger whose feet smell Confrontations between passengers who violate the unspoken rules of footwear and those who are having trouble breathing are never, ever easy.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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The Broken Psychological Contract The psychological contract—the unspoken agreement between employers and employees about mutual commitment—has taken a serious hit.—
Julia Korn,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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There's an implicit fear of failure and an ingrained cultural mindset that punishes not rewards those who dare to think differently.—
Glenn Llopis,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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On February 10th, in a rare public letter to the bishops, which included an implicit rebuke of Vance, Pope Francis urged them to continue their work with refugees.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Tacit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tacit. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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