tacit

Example Sentences

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The legislation is a tacit acknowledgment that California’s travel boycott has not worked as intended.

From Los Angeles Times

These 19th-century whalers collected the bulk of the carcass, but the orcas would eat the baleen whales’ tongue through the lower jaw, a tacit agreement known as the “law of the tongue,” Reeves says.

From Scientific American

"The US and Taiwan have developed a tacit understanding that they should take a low profile," says Prof Chen.

From BBC

Her remarks became a signature moment online, condemned for giving tacit approval to the “heckler’s veto.”

From New York Times

But although Riyadh has signalled tacit support for the Abraham Accords, allowing Israeli national carriers to fly in its airspace, it says any normalisation would require progress in the Palestinians' long-stalled quest for statehood.

From Reuters