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
• The abs selfies—and the implicit shaming that came with them—had to stop.
  — Sophie Gray, Marie Claire, 15 June 2017
• 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 message was implicit: Their worst week yet could still feature the best of them.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Nov. 2022
• 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 became the implicit pact between Cash and the crowd.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
• 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 mystery implicit in the lyrics of the songs is important, also.
  — Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
• That’s the question implicit in every one of the FTC complaint’s 174 pages.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• In Weingrod’s wood works that is always implicit — in the tree right in front of us.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
• 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
• This gets to the biggest parallel, the implicit one between you and Jonathan.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2021
• But the foursome-style strengths were implicit in the mix, even when Griffin stayed behind his kit.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2024
• If Russia makes good on its implicit threat and widens its war on Ukraine, expect a new front to open ... at sea.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• But that fact was implicit through much of what the president outlined -- and chose not to address -- at his first State of the Union.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2022
• This is the taunt implicit in everything Zuckerberg does at this point in his reign.
  — David Roth, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2021
• When reading a memoir, there’s always the implicit sense that by the end of the book, the author will have achieved some sort of clarity.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2022
• The implicit message: Demand has not been met, which means building more planes, and faster.
  — Christopher Schaberg, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2018
• But many African countries feel there is an implicit choice.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2022
• 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
• When applied to real life in the form of implicit-bias training requirements, the ideas are just plain wrong.
  — WSJ, 7 Oct. 2022
• The two-and-a-half-foot-tall fake tree whose implicit tragedy my father seemed oblivious to was on display atop a TV tray.
  — Lindsay Lee Wallace, SELF, 20 Dec. 2022
• And with every record comes an implicit challenge to beat it, whatever the cost.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 6 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The redemption is subtle, implicit and not at odds with the drama.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• During his first term, Trump argued that the act also gives the president the implicit power to dissolve a national monument.
  — Vox Staff, Vox, 24 Oct. 2024
• On the one hand, there is an implicit expectation to conform with the state’s conviction; on the other, Turkish Jews confront the difficult reality of Holocaust denial.
  — Türkay Salim Nefes, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024