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Six example sentences with tacit, each labelled with its topic.
The court found a tacit agreement in the parties' conduct, since neither had signed anything but both had performed.
Law
Nobody wrote the rule down, yet a tacit understanding kept the two firms out of each other's home markets.
Business
The point guard and the center share a tacit signal, a glance that sends one of them cutting to the rim.
Basketball
A tacit truce held between the parties during the flood, and neither criticised the other's response for a month.
Politics
Polanyi argued that much of what we know is tacit, like riding a bicycle, and cannot be written down.
Philosophy
The quartet shares a tacit rule that whoever holds the melody sets the tempo, and nobody has ever said it aloud.
Music
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- PrepScholar 357 GRE Words
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE Words
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- SparkNotes 1000 SAT Words
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