explicit
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Written by the Students for a Democratic Society, the statement was an explicit call for change and an implicit admission of defeat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Engelhardt may be technically correct that there’s no explicit law on the books about bodily integrity, but he’s wrong in a much broader sense.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
A few were explicit: They wanted to protect their kids from their memories of the attacks.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
"They were very explicit with me," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
But it’s better when the common threads are made explicit, because in the vast private web of a writer’s imagination, anything can be similar to anything else.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing explicit
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 1
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The ACT: The Language of the Test, List 1
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