explicitly
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"Neither Ivan nor I were explicitly told that we were the individuals whose names are concealed in the indictment against those accused of carrying out the assassination plot," Kasparov said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Justice Department notice did not explicitly threaten a funding cutoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Acknowledging that the contest provokes "mixed feelings" in the Netherlands, the NPO said it had "explicitly asked the EBU to once again make the unifying character of the festival an important part of the event".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Mr. Trump’s new agreement, negotiated both with the Danes and with the Greenlanders themselves, explicitly preserves U.S. military access even if Greenland eventually becomes independent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
This outward force would balance the force of the Earth’s gravity if gravity fell off in accordance with an inverse square law, but Newton did not explicitly state this at the time.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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