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Example sentences for: tacit
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He concocted Richard Nixon's 1968 "Southern Strategy"--the tacit appeal to white racism that became the blueprint for future Republican presidential candidates.
A few years ago they went after Barney because he could fly, and because he taught kids about the powers of the imagination (in their crusade they had the tacit support of parents across America, who are fully prepared to believe that the purple dinosaur is the instrument of Satan).
A curious aspect of RP was (or is) its continual shifting: as soon as some of its characteristics are adopted by speakers of a different social or educational class, RP speakers, by consent that could scarcely be tacit, change the rules of the game, coming up with shootin' and huntin'.
There is a whole range of behaviors which are sexually ambiguous to a certain extent, almost by definition, a fact which is reflected in expressions like to ask for a date or to express an interest in someone, where the sexual interest is tacit, but not explict.
(I'm back in New York this week, and one of my favorite things about returning here is the careful division of labor among the city's newspapers: They seem to have a tacit understanding that the Times will supply the city with its news, and the tabloids will supply those things that people actually want to read about.