tacitly
Example Sentences
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Ms. Low tacitly admits that the prevailing culture has been overselling the rewards of work—and playing down the importance of relationships, i.e., marriage and children, as a cornerstone of a woman’s happiness.
He and Scheffler lost, and the mistake was tacitly acknowledged on Saturday when they played together again but traded places.
Yet Ye has tacitly given it his blessing: After watching the finished cut, he texted Ballesteros, “That doc was very deep. It was like being dead and looking back on my life.”
From Los Angeles Times
The league may tacitly have encouraged teams to stay silent, but its policies don’t expressly prohibit the Galaxy, or any other team, from supporting immigrants and opposing the arrests of legal residents.
From Los Angeles Times
He tacitly acknowledged that, arguing instead that our focus should be comparing with the very recent past.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
