Examples of tacitly

• The Border Patrol, acting in the name of domestic security, has put an end to the "unofficial" rowboat crossings that local and federal officials had tacitly allowed for years.

• The defendant's own lawyer has tacitly conceded that the appeal has no merit.

• Most of us still tacitly assume the relationship to be one of cause and effect.

• In using money, people agreed tacitly to such an unequal distribution.

• His influence is felt - tacitly or explicitly - in the very structure and function of ethics committees today, and he will be sorely missed.

• Or we might say that by entering the military service, the private has tacitly or explicitly promised to obey orders from his superiors.

• The difference between a background proposition and a presupposition is that the former, unlike the latter, is not tacitly entailed but stated by the utterance.

• While on the surface it complacently played this role, it tacitly contested it as well.