make explicit
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As the final moments of the film make explicit, the meaning of what they went through is up to the individual, for each to take away what they will.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
This March, the judiciary revised its regulations to make explicit that private jet travel must be disclosed because transportation is not covered by the personal hospitality exemption.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2023
“They have to make explicit that one way or the other, the U.S. regulatory system will make sure your deposits are safe in any federally regulated institution,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2023
Later, in “Alphabet Bété,” he would make explicit each character’s derivation in his preferred medium of colored pencil on boards the size of playing cards.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
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
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