explicit

In a sentence

Six example sentences with explicit, each labelled with its topic.

• The forecast is explicit about its assumptions, naming the oil price and the wage growth it depends on.

  Economics

• Good error messages are explicit: they name the file, the line, and the exact value the parser rejected.

  Technology

• The recipe is explicit about pan size, oven position, and the minute at which the sugar must come off heat.

  Cooking

• Kant is explicit that the rule must hold for everyone, and he restates the condition several times.

  Philosophy

• The prospectus is explicit about fees, listing the annual charge, the exit penalty, and the day each is deducted.

  Finance

• The coach's explicit rule was simple: never leave the corner shooter, whatever happens at the rim.

  Basketball

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More Academic words

• emergence
• economically
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• rejection
• illustrate
• accessibility
• economist
• styling
• yield
• evaluation
• criteria
• justification