explicit

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Jack Dorsey, who leads financial technology firm Block, has been even more explicit about his aims.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

“I’d rather meet them where they are and fold it into an explicit risk budget than pretend it doesn’t exist,” said Patrick Huey, a certified financial planner in Naples, Fla.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

Making that change would mark the first explicit acknowledgment that the easing cycle may be over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Iran’s government is an explicit theocracy with the ayatollah, the supreme leader, maintaining both a religious and political role.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

Gassendi saw no need to make an explicit distinction between the evidence of vestiges and the evidence of witnesses, but he certainly did not think that the scar ‘testifies’ to the wound.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton