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explicitly

[ik-splis-it-lee] / ɪkˈsplɪs ɪt li /








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At the Virginia ratifying convention, Edmund Randolph said explicitly that “there is another provision against the danger … of the President receiving emoluments from foreign powers. If discovered, he may be impeached.”

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

His family never explicitly taught him any financial lessons, he said, but his mother’s paydays helped him catch on pretty quickly to the value of work and managing money.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

"Modern AI systems do not simply retrieve or copy their training examples; they can combine learned information in new ways and generate outputs and solutions that were not explicitly present in those examples."

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

For Hodges, the question became how to convey that force without depicting it explicitly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Although Copernicus, Galileo and Newton were well aware that their ideas were momentous, and we can legitimately describe their work as revolutionary, they never explicitly said to themselves, ‘I am making a revolution.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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