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tacit

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Citing the coronavirus pandemic, the IOC said it’s making this early step “given the uncertainty the world is facing right now,” but the move is also a tacit acknowledgment that its traditional bidding system is not as effective as it once was.

It’s a tacit admission that USPS is not currently America’s preferred delivery option, and an acknowledgement the organization needs to change.

From Quartz

A conviction is unlikely to come at this point, meaning the United States Senate is going to give its tacit approval for what happened just steps from the Senate floor.

From Time

A statement signed by former cross-country world champion Paula Radcliffe, along with 22 other elite women athletes, pushed back against the assertion that having shorter races for women was a tacit insult to their ability.

Part of this stemmed from the tacit encouragement of people who knew better.

Meese, with the tacit acquiescence of other top officials, had laid out a version of events all were expected to uphold.

At the same time, this focus on pragmatism is a tacit acknowledgment from the president.

In briefings with some reporters U.S. officials indicated tacit Libyan approval had been provided.

The five- page document, which has the tacit support of Senate GOP leaders, represents a remarkable shift for the party.

There is, in the cancellation, a tacit admission of culpability where there is none.

Without any known cause of offence, a tacit acknowledgement of mutual dislike was shewn by Louis and de Patinos.

The visitors, seeing how distressed the General was, by tacit consent avoided the subject, but everyone felt the dampening effect.

Mr. Pontellier had been a rather courteous husband so long as he met a certain tacit submissiveness in his wife.

His attitude became one of good-humored subservience and tacit adoration.

When a man talks about "spiritual discernment," he makes a tacit assertion which ought not to be allowed to pass unchallenged.

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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tacit, such as: implicit, implied, indirect, unspoken, alluded to, and allusive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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