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
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
The implicit claim in Mr. Stein’s title is that the National League was somehow Spalding’s own league in a way it wasn’t anyone else’s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
These kick in when they involve an investor from a country that holds more than 40 percent of the related global manufacturing capacity -- an implicit reference to China's dominance in those sectors.
From Barron's • Mar. 4, 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
Vocabulary lists containing implicit
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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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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