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How to use the word tacit in a Sentence?

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If you can manage the relationship between Beijing and Taipei well, then that will – to some extent – reduce the pressure from that kind of dollar diplomacy, if both sides can reach some sort of tacit understanding … then we will avoid that kind of bad situation.

Taipei Mayor Chiang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China is willing to give Russia some tacit support politically, diplomatically and to some extent economically, but the bottom line is that it isn't going to go out of its way and undercut its other strategic objectives to support Russia.

Brian Hart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is the first time I find Pooja Shakun Pandey using the term' genocide' in Indian politics, they have tacit support in the form of government silence.

Pooja Shakun Pandey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The U.S. Olympic Committee’s dismissal of our concerns is a tacit endorsement of communist China’s behavior, we have no assurances that our athletes will be safe at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and have no reason to believe that the Chinese Communist Party will not leverage their position to weaponize its new digital currency and national security law to target U.S. athletes.

Marsha Blackburn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm very circumspect about Biden’s actions in this summit because we're supposed to impose costs when cyberattacks occur and when they meet a level of attribution to a state, most cyber criminals in Russia operate with tacit state approval.

Kara Frederick

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No public health can work without the support of the society it's in. The science is clear in all of these things, but unless it has not just tacit support, but engaged support, then public health really struggles.

Jeremy Farrar

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is something of a tacit admission that Apple is struggling to be innovative on the iPhone front and needs longer to come up with radical new ideas, that said, it is a sensible move that reflects the reality of the market and will allow Apple to re-set expectations, of both the market and consumers, in terms of the product lifecycle.

Neil Saunders

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If there is any evidence of even tacit knowledge, involvement or participation, it would certainly give a Family Court judge concern over placing a child in that environment.

Troy Slaten

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There are lots of details but no concrete list for building an Arctic vessel, it's more about tacit knowledge.

Esko Mustamaki

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

Henry James

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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