implicit

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This is implicit in the chart above, which shows the slope of the fair-value line becoming nearly flat.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

The implicit rule was that provincial party chiefs had earned the party’s protection after retirement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Since the Cold War, other countries that maintained their holdings of dollars and U.S. securities in no small part for security reasons, reflecting an implicit quid pro quo for America’s defense shield.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

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 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