explicitly
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"Even though this character appeals to kids, making a game that is explicitly like, 'sorry, this is not for kids, you should not play this game' - it does reduce the scope," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Wildlife traders often describe animals as needing to be "rehomed", rather than explicitly offering them for sale, and post tightly cropped images of their wares to avoid revealing their locations.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
“It’s not like we had to say the words explicitly to get that effect.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The justices explicitly left the legality of the eventual policy for another day.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
Kant suggested explicitly that M31 in the constellation Andromeda was another Milky Way, composed of enormous numbers of stars, and proposed calling such objects by the evocative and haunting phrase “island universes.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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