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tacitly assumed
adjective as in implied
Strong matches
Example Sentences
It also exposes the tacitly assumed myth that these bases were named during or soon after the Civil War.
“Apparently,” Leopold writes, “she has up to now tacitly assumed that German is the language of fathers, because it is that of her father. The question reveals the first doubt concerning the correctness of the generalization.”
Is it cool to attend or aspire to attend these kinds of events, where women's bodies are the main attraction—marketed and monetized to such a dehumanizing point where it's not even mentioned in writing, but immediately and tacitly assumed?
I have tacitly assumed in this column that the targets on the “kill list” are appropriate and urgent targets—i.e., that they do pose a direct threat to the United States.
This line of reasoning does not appear quite satisfactory, because it is tacitly assumed, in the reasoning by which Carnot’s principle was established, as a result of universal experience, that a number of bodies within the same impervious enclosure, which contains no source of heat, will ultimately acquire the same temperature, and that difference of temperature is required to produce flow of heat.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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