make explicit

Example Sentences

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This March, the judiciary revised its regulations to make explicit that private jet travel must be disclosed because transportation is not covered by the personal hospitality exemption.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2023

The flashbacks to Harper and James’ marriage, while tense and arresting, are arguably the story’s weakest link, mainly because they make explicit what is better left ambiguous.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2022

In the course of the deliberations that day, the chancellor also resolved to make explicit how Germany would develop its arsenal to guard against a widening conflict.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

Later, in “Alphabet Bété,” he would make explicit each character’s derivation in his preferred medium of colored pencil on boards the size of playing cards.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

But for the most part the new scientists avoided the word ‘evidence’ because it inevitably carried with it an implicit reference to the law courts—a reference that Sprat was willing to make explicit.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton