explicitly
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Although the indictment was dismissed, Montano explicitly left the door open for another prosecution.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
A meaningful share of the energy available to the body is influenced by microbial processes that conventional food-label calculations do not explicitly measure.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
The updated policy does not explicitly cite so-called "model welfare," the idea that AI systems might deserve types of protection usually reserved for living things, but Anthropic and its executives have openly entertained the concept.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
To present an argument to an ITP, all this background knowledge must be entered, explicitly and formally, down to the simplest definitions of numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In 1870, most people believed that the word “male” in the Fourteenth Amendment explicitly excluded women from voting, but others read the law differently.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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