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tacitly

[tas-it-lee] / ˈtæs ɪt li /


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Tacitly acknowledging how implausible this version will seem, she shrugs.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2017

Tacitly expressed in the dancing is a guarantee to the audience that whatever goes down, there’s no need for panic because onstage we have your back.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2015

Tacitly, that's the kind of activity that you don't need a law degree for, the raw business verve that is very easily explained, because it just involves thinking of something, making it and selling it.

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2011

Tacitly conceding that private incentives were necessary, China's planners fell back on what they call the "socialist society's principles of more income for more work."

From Time Magazine Archive

Tacitly admitting that he remembered the unmentionable, Ralph nodded to Piggy.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding




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