make explicit

Example Sentences

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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

As if to make explicit his threat of legal action against school personnel, he copied his letter to the chief of the state police.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022

Not all juice cleanse companies make explicit claims about weight loss, but there’s no doubt that it’s a major reason people attempt one.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2022

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