How to Use explicitly in a Sentence

explicitly

adverb
Definition of explicitlynext
  • 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
  • Think of it like Black Friday, but explicitly on Amazon and over the course of two days.
    — Summer Cartwright, StyleCaster, 25 June 2024
  • 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
  • There are other people who have things to say more explicitly about the topics at hand.
    — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Aside from a single tube sock and a few wads of gum mushed between pine cone buds, there didn’t appear to be many items that were explicitly waste.
    — Verity Sturm, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • But not every song on the album was explicitly about Theron.
    — Andy Gorel, SPIN, 12 May 2023
  • He’s largely shed the pieces of his job that didn’t excite him — namely, those that weren’t explicitly about making shows.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The family and the clerk raised excellent points, points that rest on premises that are so compelling that nobody felt a need to state them explicitly.
    — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 25 June 2024
  • On iPhones, Apple explicitly bans downloads outside of the app store.
    — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • While Bloys did not explicitly state which cast members would return for season 3, at least two absences are set in stone.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 June 2024
  • Remember the specs may or may not explicitly mention Wi-Fi 4, 5, or 6.
    — Joseph Moran, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The union’s contract with the studios explicitly allows tiling.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
  • None of the other central characters in the book, however, are explicitly people of color — which may come as a surprise to fans of the show.
    — Emily Hilton, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • The characters on this show are explicitly Jewish in a way TV can sometimes be reluctant to talk about.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Here are the Democrats who have explicitly called for Biden’s withdrawal or replacement.
    — Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 10 July 2024
  • But who says Santa can only appear in a movie that's explicitly Christmas-themed?
    — Drew MacKie, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2022
  • In the film, the cruise ship workers are Filipino, but their ethnicity is not explicitly mentioned.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a thousand things about characters that will never get mentioned explicitly in a movie or TV series, but are still true.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 31 July 2024
  • Musk has explicitly endorsed Trump and appeared at rallies alongside the former president.
    — Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Musk has tweeted about deporting criminals, but does not appear to have explicitly expressed an opinion on Trump’s calls for mass deportations.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024

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