After 12 years of mayhem in and around the country, there seems to be a tacit understanding that torture does work but only for a while.

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The Anglican ethos rests on an unspoken consensus, a tacit understanding that all manner of crankiness and eccentricity can be tolerated as long as the family somehow stays intact.

ECONOMIST: The Anglican Communion

The implication is that students and the business world are too crude to have a tacit understanding of right and wrong and need formal instruction in how to recognize the difference.

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CouchSurfing connects people who have a spare sofa with travellers who wish to sleep on it, on the tacit understanding that the travellers will do the same for someone else in the network some day.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

That's been a kind of understanding, a tacit agreement between these countries since the late 1940s.

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With an understanding of what tacit knowledge exists, how it is distributed across the organization, how people influence each other, which ideas are considered important, and useful metrics-based insight on all of this, organizations are much more readily armed to transform its structure, processes, or culture.

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