tacitly
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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
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Tacitly admitting that he remembered the unmentionable, Ralph nodded to Piggy.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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