How to Use explicitly in a Sentence

explicitly

adverb

• But the rest of the year was explicitly designed to be a counterpoint to that for the Hewson clan.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2023
• In fact, the system looks a lot like the kind of thing Dios explicitly disapproves of.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• The complaint, a copy of which was reviewed by CNN, does not explicitly call for a breakup of Apple.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• The new deal marks the first agreement between G7 nations to explicitly mention a phase-out of coal.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• This sneaker is designed explicitly as a work shoe — for all types of work requiring you to spend a lot of time on your feet.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2023
• The trustees fell short of explicitly calling for Magill to resign.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2023
• When the data needs to be processed, access can be explicitly granted for that purpose to allow the secure movement of the data from the store to a TEE.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
• On iPhones, Apple explicitly bans downloads outside of the app store.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• The union’s contract with the studios explicitly allows tiling.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
• While not explicitly a water toy, this bubble bucket is convenient for toting to the beach or playing with by the pool.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 13 June 2023
• What Andreessen chose to retweet spoke even more explicitly in this direction.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023
• By the time of the Chartists, a mass movement of the working class, an explicitly political agenda had evolved alongside struggles over pay.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Nov. 2023
• Foster’s Danvers more explicitly doesn’t suffer fools, but Reis’ Navarro is just as strong-willed in her way.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
• Taylor signed the letter despite the fact that the state has no laws explicitly banning pharmacies from carrying the drugs.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
• While no one at the dinner explicitly tried to recruit Sutskever, the conversation hooked him.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Vision Pro has a specific Travel Mode that’s explicitly made for using it on an airplane.
  — Kyle Barr / Gizmodo, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
• The group has not explicitly pushed for an independent or third-party candidate to run in 2024.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2023
• But exactly what such an outcome would entail need not be spelled out explicitly.
  — Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2023
• Service charges can still exist, but must be explicitly displayed in menu prices rather than being added at the end as a percentage of the total price, Bonta’s office said.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• The verse from Deuteronomy that the Israeli leader quoted—which is explicitly cited in the official translation of his speech—recounts the time of Moses.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
• The film is addressing masculinity in a way that, frankly, isn’t addressed as explicitly in Spielberg’s film.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
• The tradition of the filibuster does not explicitly appear in the Constitution, which left it up to the chambers of Congress to determine their rules.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 Mar. 2024
• The document does not explicitly describe phase one, but does refer to earlier work carried out by Google on behalf of the ministry.
  — Billy Perrigo, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
• YouTube’s terms of service explicitly state that podcast content can’t contain ad formats that compete with YouTube’s own.
  — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2023
• The feature explicitly identifies in-car symbols, offering a way to know what those squiggly lines and trapezoids mean.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 24 July 2023
• The framers explicitly warned us that the checks and balances are only as effective as the people responsible for carrying them out.
  — Liz Cheney, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
• That song resonates so much more deeply than the numbers that simply explain the characters with exposition, or the ones that explicitly spell out emotions.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
• Your proposal doesn’t have to be on a hot air balloon in Paris or a picturesque beach in the Maldives—unless your person has explicitly expressed that preference.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023
• And in 2022, the state was among the first in the nation to explicitly prohibit residents from using gender neutral markers on their birth certificates.
  — Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• But most important, both are celebratory works, explicitly concerned with the search for joy and the longing to belong.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024