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
The point is the ask itself; the atmosphere it creates is an implicit signal that reporters who cover these men are already on notice.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
Countless people sang the usual songs to us: “I hope with time it’s getting better…” So well-meaning, of course, but also tone-deaf in their implicit call for us to be “better.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
He told BBC's 5 Live Drive that the statement "basically changes nothing" as the implicit threat of mines remain.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
This assumption has in fact been implicit throughout much of this chapter.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing implicit
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 1
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The ACT: The Language of the Test, List 1
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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