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Six example sentences with explicitly, each labelled with its topic.
The contract explicitly names the arbitration city, so neither side can argue later about where a dispute gets heard.
Law
The style guide explicitly forbids two-space indentation, and the formatter rewrites any file that arrives with it.
Technology
The chef explicitly told the servers never to bring pepper to the table, since the sauce was already seasoned.
Cooking
The rulebook explicitly bans hanging on the rim after a dunk unless a player is avoiding injury.
Basketball
The loan agreement explicitly caps the rate at nine percent, so the lender cannot raise it when the market moves.
Finance
The tournament rules explicitly list which controllers are allowed, down to the firmware version each one must run.
Gaming
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Found in these word lists
Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)
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