make explicit

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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

As if to make explicit his threat of legal action against school personnel, he copied his letter to the chief of the state police.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022

Not all juice cleanse companies make explicit claims about weight loss, but there’s no doubt that it’s a major reason people attempt one.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 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

The first person to make explicit the idea of a large—indeed, an infinite—number of other worlds in orbit about other suns seems to have been Giordano Bruno.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan