explicit

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But it’s a testament to how even the slightest of pivots can reframe a story, making it all the more personal without drawing explicit attention to itself.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

“TSA exists for security purposes and they’re explicit about that,” said Vincent Joralemon, director of UC Berkeley’s Life Sciences Law and Policy Center.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

The debut of Spark, which Google announced at its annual developer’s conference Tuesday, comes as AI upstarts including Anthropic and OpenAI work to make their agents more capable of making choices without explicit human direction.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

It also maintained the building’s relatively humble footprint, an explicit contrast with the palatial dwellings of European monarchs.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

But for the most part the new scientists avoided the word ‘evidence’ because it inevitably carried with it an implicit reference to the law courts—a reference that Sprat was willing to make explicit.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton