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implicit as in:  not explicitly but implicitly

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"Did she explicitly promise?" "Well, I guess not explicitly, but nobody who was there could have missed the implicit promise."
implicit = understood (without having been directly said)
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    Though she did not mention him by name, her comments were clearly an implicit criticism of his policies.
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    I think this was implicit in your suggestion, but I want to state it explicitly, so there is no doubt that we are on the same page.
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    The Federal Government explicitly insures up to $250,000 deposited in any FDIC-insured bank, but there is also an implicit guarantee that institutions that are "too big to fail", will be supported in a crisis.
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    Their implicit message was that we were moving into what would become our own cemetery.  (source)
    implicit = understood (without having been directly said)
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    Until Rachael told me to talk to a recruiter—implicitly arguing that she thought I could handle it—joining the Marines seemed as plausible as flying to Mars.  (source)
    implicitly = in a manner that is not stated directly, but is understood
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    His affection was proved to have been sincere, and his conduct cleared of all blame, unless any could attach to the implicitness of his confidence in his friend.†  (source)
    implicitness = the state or degree of being understood without being expressed directly
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Implicit in that statement is "we're in this together."  (source)
    Implicit = understood (without having been directly said)
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    It must be understood, either implicitly or explicitly, that when Obi talks to one of the fighters, everyone gives them privacy.  (source)
    implicitly = in a manner that is not stated directly, but is understood
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    More shocking was the message implicit in what Diane had said.  (source)
    implicit = understood (without having been directly said)
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    Implicit in what we're saying about China is something that sounds shocking to many Americans: Sweatshops have given women a boost.  (source)
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    The Do not disturb was implicit.  (source)
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    Although it was no part of his constitutional function, Lincoln did what he could to speed this amendment toward ratification by announcing that he considered it only an explicit statement of what was already implicit in the Constitution—  (source)
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    Aunt Lydia did not actually say this, but it was implicit in everything she did say.†  (source)
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implicit as in:  implicit problem with the design

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    The policy helps to reduce the us-versus-them mentality that is implicit in human nature.
    implicit = exists as an inseparable characteristic
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    Over the past few years, a number of psychologists have begun to look more closely at the role these kinds of unconscious—or, as they like to call them, implicit—associations play in our beliefs and behavior,  (source)
    implicit = existing as an inseparable characteristic
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    But man's descent from animals had been implicit in the first book as well.  (source)
    implicit = an inseparable argument
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    The always seeping suspicion, paralysis, the thing implicit in the push-button city, that it will stop cold, leaving us helpless in the rat-eye dark, and then we begin to wonder, as I did, how the whole thing works anyway.  (source)
    implicit = existing as an inseparable characteristic
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    Eliot uses his essay on Joyce to defend implicitly his own masterpiece, The Waste Land, which also builds around ancient myths, in this case fertility myths associated with the Fisher King.  (source)
    implicitly = by the nature of the argument
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    Sergeant Denham understood that: it was part of his job, though it would not appear in regulations, was rather implicit in the spirit of the country, the spirit in which he was soaked.  (source)
    implicit = existing as an inseparable characteristic
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    She didn't need to explain herself, or the future of the world, to the Circlers, who implicitly understood her and the planet and the way it had to be and soon would be.  (source)
    implicitly = inherently (automatically as a result of who they were)
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    ...and much of their work has focused on a very fascinating tool called the Implicit Association Test (IAT).  (source)
    Implicit = existing as an inseparable characteristic
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    He was beginning to simmer with rage, although he knew quite well that they themselves were quite unconscious of the patronage implicit in their manner, and that it would be better for him to try and understand the real meaning of this scene, rather than to stand on his dignity.  (source)
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    Overwhelmingly, the heads of big companies are, as I'm sure comes as no surprise to anyone, white men, which undoubtedly reflects some kind of implicit bias.  (source)
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    But, in the interval, there would be a few brief moments when he would see the thing clearly, and understand that it was "white civilization" fighting to defend itself that had been implicit in the attitude of Charlie Slatter and the Sergeant, "white civilization" which will never, never admit that a white person, and most particularly, a white woman, can have a human relationship, whether for good or for evil, with a black person.  (source)
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    If you'd like to try a computerized IAT, you can go to www.implicit.harvard.edu.  (source)
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implicit as in:  I trust her implicitly.

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Her team has implicit confidence in her decisions.
implicit = without question or doubt
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    I trust her implicitly.
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    A person I'd trusted implicitly.  (source)
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    He knows, but he's paid more than enough to keep quiet; and besides, the Admiral trusts Cleaver implicitly.  (source)
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    He has no idea of your true allegiance, he trusts you implicitly still?  (source)
    implicitly = without question or doubt
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    Lourdes is pleased with her uniform's implicit authority, with the severity of her unadorned face and blunt, round nose.  (source)
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    "Trust me." And Butler did. Implicitly.  (source)
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    Badenbrink was an implacable colleague in whom Gullberg had implicit trust.  (source)
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    "All these tests and tubes," said Tante Jans, who believed in them implicitly, "what do they really prove?"  (source)
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    They've accumulated enough credibility that their followers trust their recommendations implicitly, and are deeply thankful for the surety in their shopping.  (source)
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    Still, he implicitly believes that what Europe represents is degraded and decaying (and these are not the only examples).  (source)
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    Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend—or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet—understands this implicitly: you can learn as much—or more—from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.  (source)
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    I trust you implicitly!  (source)
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    She was also the most sensible person now residing in the old Sappington house, and her mother trusted her implicitly.  (source)
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