explicit

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The Fed adopted an explicit inflation target of 2%, as measured by the annual change in the personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, price index, in January 2012 and re-affirmed that target in January 2026.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Jack Dorsey, who leads financial technology firm Block, has been even more explicit about his aims.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

“I’d rather meet them where they are and fold it into an explicit risk budget than pretend it doesn’t exist,” said Patrick Huey, a certified financial planner in Naples, Fla.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

Making that change would mark the first explicit acknowledgment that the easing cycle may be over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

No explicit articulation of those assumptions had been necessary in a national forum before 1790, because no frontal assault on slavery had been made that required a direct or systematic response.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis