How to Use implicit in a Sentence

implicit

adjective
  • There is a sense of moral duty implicit in her writings.
  • I have implicit trust in her honesty.
  • But, for now, the implicit threat of more to come looms.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Where there’s some sort of implicit prompt or prompt that sort of in the background.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • So, the hope is that at least some of them would be able to overcome this implicit bias.
    John Timmer, Wired, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The abs selfies—and the implicit shaming that came with them—had to stop.
    Sophie Gray, Marie Claire, 15 June 2017
  • The mystery implicit in the lyrics of the songs is important, also.
    Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
  • And adding to that is there's a fish out of water story that's implicit in that.
    Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • That was the joke implicit in his code name — the idea that there were at least six more of these jokers running around the world.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The message was implicit: Their worst week yet could still feature the best of them.
    Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Indeed, there’s as much implicit wisdom in these pages about how to live as how to write.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Research has shown that children of color face implicit bias from a young age.
    oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2021
  • You could be overwhelmed by a friendship and its implicit demands.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Studies of implicit bias have recently drawn ire from both right and left.
    Keith Payne, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Leonard said she's been learning a lot about her own implicit bias from attending the protests.
    Natalia E. Contreras, The Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2020
  • But many African countries feel there is an implicit choice.
    Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The redemption is subtle, implicit and not at odds with the drama.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This gets to the biggest parallel, the implicit one between you and Jonathan.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2021
  • And with every record comes an implicit challenge to beat it, whatever the cost.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 6 Aug. 2020
  • This is the taunt implicit in everything Zuckerberg does at this point in his reign.
    David Roth, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Thus, the visitor is able to see his or her own implicit bias in the situation.
    Wendy Moonan, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
  • In the case of testing for and counteracting implicit bias, there is also still much left to be learned.
    Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Apr. 2018
  • On the other hand, implicit boundaries have more gray areas.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 30 Sep. 2022
  • There was an implicit challenge too, of assumptions about who gets to own a certain style.
    New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • To call an act murder is to call it a crime, and that is an implicit demand for state intervention.
    Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The movies borrowed from other arts on the way to finding methods implicit in their medium.
    Bernard Devoto, The World of Fiction, 1950
  • When applied to real life in the form of implicit-bias training requirements, the ideas are just plain wrong.
    WSJ, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In Weingrod’s wood works that is always implicit — in the tree right in front of us.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
  • That carries with it the implicit threat of invasion if Moscow doesn’t get its way.
    Greg Palkot, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • On top of that, implicit racial biases still exist in health care settings.
    Tatiana Walk-Morris, SELF, 20 Feb. 2018

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