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It's an ambition they make explicit on Half Time, a boom-bap rap track that references the renewal of their seven-year contract with record label JYP Entertainment last year.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

The mayor later amended the order to make explicit her intent to prohibit ED1 projects from being approved on properties zoned for single-family homes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

“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

But Berg had the last word with his Allegro appassionato, seeming to make explicit the pervasive yearning of Schubert and take its Romantic sentiment to a breaking point.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

The first person to make explicit the idea of a large—indeed, an infinite—number of other worlds in orbit about other suns seems to have been Giordano Bruno.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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