How to Use implicit in a Sentence

implicit

adjective
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  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Thus, the visitor is able to see his or her own implicit bias in the situation.
    — Wendy Moonan, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Research has shown that children of color face implicit bias from a young age.
    — oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2021
  • And there is an implicit argument in How to Do Nothing that not all time should be money.
    — Melissa Rodman, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • That carries with it the implicit threat of invasion if Moscow doesn’t get its way.
    — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The world’s richest man also mused about the work ethic of the wealthy—drawing an implicit contrast with himself.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022

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