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There was a tacit understanding that Jessica would play good cop and Tyler would play bad cop.tacit = implied (not directly said, but understood)
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We have a tacit agreement.tacit = implied
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Jem went in grinning, and Calpurnia nodded tacit consent to having Dill in to supper. (source)tacit = implied, but not said aloud
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"Miss Neveu," Teabing said, "the Church and the Priory have had a tacit understanding for years." (source)tacit = understood, but not stated directly
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So I glanced at my wrist watch, brought my hand dramatically to my mouth as though remembering something urgent and important, repeated the pantomime in case anybody had missed it, and with this tacit explanation started briskly back toward the center of the school. (source)tacit = implied, but not expressed directly
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Nathan disappeared with her most evenings and, although he returned for late duties, we tacitly gave him as much time as possible to enjoy himself. (source)tacitly = without saying anything about it
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Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by tacit consent they left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool. (source)tacit = unspoken
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Tacitly the Party was even inclined to encourage prostitution, as an outlet for instincts which could not be altogether suppressed. (source)Tacitly = in an indirect manner
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By tacit consent, they had adopted a plan of campaign. (source)tacit = unspoken but understood
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Many read the editorial as tacitly encouraging Red Guards to attack military armories and seize weapons from the PLA, further inflaming the local civil wars waged by Red Guard factions.† (source)tacitly = in an indirect manner
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The blush that rose to my own cheeks somehow set us both at ease, for it was a tacit answer to her own. (source)tacit = understood, but not expressed directly
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Then whoever is persecuting them, and all those who tacitly support this persecution, would realize that to persecute them would mean persecuting at least 10 percent of the population—including their sons, daughters, neighbors and friends—even their own parents.† (source)tacitly = in an indirect manner
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"Yes, but —" I'd unboxed so much china from funeral sales and broken-up households that there was something almost unspeakably sad about the pristine, gleaming displays, with their tacit assurance that shiny new tableware promised an equally shiny and tragedy-free future.† (source)tacit = implied
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Later as an adult when I heard folks talk of the love/ hate relationship between blacks and Jews I understood it to the bone not because of any outside sociological study, but because of my own experience with Jewish teachers and classmates-some who were truly kind, genuine, and sensitive, others who could not hide their distaste for my black face— people I'd met during my own contacts with the Jewish world, which Mommy tacitly arranged by forcing every one of us to go to predominantly Jewish public schools.† (source)tacitly = in an indirect manner
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Worm gagged and began to cry, which was seen as a tacit admission of guilt; the criminal who couldn't face his own crime.† (source)tacit = implied
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We tacitly agreed that severed heads really wouldn't go with the decor in our hotel rooms.† (source)tacitly = in an indirect manner
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