implicit

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These schools weren’t quite a direct pipeline into the American armed services, but their implicit promise was to cultivate gentlemen, if not always literal officers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

But each additional dollar of income arrives bundled with costs required to earn it—an implicit infrastructure tax that makes the return on that last dollar far smaller than the headline number suggests.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

It was implicit that the defence team had been seeking his return home, with Serbia's government making it clear it would be prepared to provide guarantees to the court if they released him.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

In all of these publications, the politics are implicit, carried by the authors’ public personas rather than articulated through sustained argument.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

To Descartes, zero was also implicit in God’s domain, as was the infinite.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife