implicit
adjective
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Implicit With a Preposition
Implicit is often followed by a preposition, and that preposition is usually in:
"American Horror Story" is a pretty grisly show. No one should be too surprised by that revelation — it’s sort of the promise implicit in its name, after all.
—Lacy Baugher, The Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2016
On less frequent occasions, implicit may be followed by from, with, or within:
[S]uch a ruling seemed implicit from Fullam’s comments.
—Sean O’Sullivan, The News Journal (Wilmington, DE), 4 October 2006Implicit with the discovery of oil was the hard truth that it wasn't going to last forever.
—Warren Jones et al., Alaska Dispatch News, 1 June 2016Russia's president was explicit, calling on the West to pressure Kiev to deliver results. Implicit within that was a threat: that Moscow will not play along with the talks forever.
—Sarah Rainsford, BBC News, 14 Aug. 2016The black dead ocean looked like a mirror of the night; it was cold, implicit with dread and death…
—Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, 1948
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Examples of implicit in a Sentence
Henry Steele Commager, Atlantic, March 1982
… in the best stories the end is implicit from the beginning.
—Joan Aiken, The Writer, May 1968
The goodness and strength implicit within Pen unfold but slowly.
—John DeBruyn, LIT, Spring 1966
The movies borrowed from other arts on the way to finding methods implicit in their medium.
—Bernard DeVoto, The World of Fiction, 1950
There is a sense of moral duty implicit in her writings.
I have implicit trust in her honesty.
Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
If the previous maze had an implicit fear of intimacy, Nightmare Trilogy can think of nothing scarier to Tesfaye than the persona he (and the music industry) created.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
Text messages are also more likely to be checked immediately because of their implicit sense of urgency, unlike emails that go unread or phone calls that are left unanswered (especially among younger people).
—David MacK, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
From Cultural Wins to Moderation The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the implicit support for it among Democratic institutions was among the defining features of America's culture wars in the Trump era.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Implicit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/implicit. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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