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as in unspoken
understood although not put into words
the implicit agreement among members of the outing club is that everyone pays his or her own way on all trips
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as in confident
having or showing a mind free from doubt
members of the expedition must have implicit trust in their leaders
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as in potential
existing only as a possibility and not in fact
there's a risk implicit in any overseas operation undertaken by the military
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Recent Examples of implicit
Distribute Leadership Formally: If management layers are reduced, explicitly redistribute leadership responsibilities through formal structures, not as implicit additional work.
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Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
That two of Washington’s closest allies would join Beijing in implicit criticism of the U.S. highlights the danger.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2025
To match the implicit censoriousness of the Stanford list and similar approaches never enshrined into law, the Trump administration is resorting to out-and-out censorship.
—Suzanne Nossel, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2025
The desire to memorialize through statues and buildings is often paired with the impulse to alter the truth, to construct the memories that won’t fracture a community’s sense of its implicit goodness.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
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Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
That two of Washington’s closest allies would join Beijing in implicit criticism of the U.S. highlights the danger.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2025
To match the implicit censoriousness of the Stanford list and similar approaches never enshrined into law, the Trump administration is resorting to out-and-out censorship.
—Suzanne Nossel, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2025
The desire to memorialize through statues and buildings is often paired with the impulse to alter the truth, to construct the memories that won’t fracture a community’s sense of its implicit goodness.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for implicit
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What to do with a passenger whose feet smell Confrontations between passengers who violate the unspoken rules of footwear and those who are having trouble breathing are never, ever easy.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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The Broken Psychological Contract The psychological contract—the unspoken agreement between employers and employees about mutual commitment—has taken a serious hit.—
Julia Korn,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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And over the opening month of this season, Yamamoto’s confident mound presence has been mirrored behind the scenes, the pitcher becoming more vocal in game-planning meetings and assured in his clubhouse demeanor.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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Both Roseman and Sirianni were confident that Mukuba could deliver the same blows in the NFL despite being undersized.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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Those anecdotes have served as a bright yellow light for some people who want the smoothing results but are worried about potential side effects.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
2 May 2025
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In fact, the Koch orbit did its best to ignore Trump, sitting out the 2016 general election after flirting with other potential nominees who came up short.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
2 May 2025
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In the last two weeks, Trump issued an executive order directing agencies to sunset every existing energy regulation by next year and, in a separate memorandum, said those agencies may repeal certain regulations without allowing the public to weigh in.—
Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Since then, several federal judges have issued habeas writs blocking certain deportations from the U.S. and even movement of potential deportees from one state to another.—
Andrea Seielstad,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
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My Maryland street is proof of that and offers a call for states and the rest of the world to carry on the fight for climate solutions as fast as possible.—
Mike Tidwell,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Apr. 2025
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Many Andor fans weren’t happy to learn that Disney+ intended to release the show’s second and final season in weekly three-episode chunks, as if the streamer were eager to be done with this outlier entry in the Star Wars franchise as quickly as possible.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2025
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Trump is set to visit the UK on a second state visit soon; this time, the invitation from King Charles III was gleefully unfurled by Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, in the White House, and was met with tacit acceptance back home.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN,
24 Mar. 2025
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Not even Salvadorans dared visit these at night; most complied with a tacit curfew the gangs had imposed.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Golden Knights may be the 2023 Stanley Cup champions, but the Wild sure are putting up a fight.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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Give me a little more sense of rivalry, competitiveness and, sure, bad blood.—
The Athletic NBA Staff,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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The numbers paint a generally positive outlook that, according to these forecasters, should allow the nation to narrowly dodge a slump.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Research backs up the fact that positive self-talk can help with emotional regulation: A 2020 study found a positive relationship between self-talk and coping with the stress of having an illness.—
Caitlin Carlson,
SELF,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Implicit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/implicit. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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