implicit

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These schools weren’t quite a direct pipeline into the American armed services, but their implicit promise was to cultivate gentlemen, if not always literal officers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

The movie has an implicit motto, confidently stated by Kyle, that applies to all security systems: “At the end of the day, it’s still run by people. And people are stupid.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

It was implicit that the defence team had been seeking his return home, with Serbia's government making it clear it would be prepared to provide guarantees to the court if they released him.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

In all of these publications, the politics are implicit, carried by the authors’ public personas rather than articulated through sustained argument.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

Yet there is often a weak correlation between degrees of explicit and implicit bias; many people who think they are not biased prove when tested to have relatively high levels of bias.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander