adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assumption
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The second aspect seems even more important: it warns against false generalisations and implicit assumptions .
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We begin interactions with an implicit assumption that other people determine and control their behaviour.
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It relates to two powerful but implicit assumptions in the messages of women's magazines.
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The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest.
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The basic problem is that most methods make implicit assumptions about the way the brain is organized.
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The implicit assumption of the naive Phillips curve was that the expected rate of inflation was zero.
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The implicit assumption as to why this should be so is that questions of law are for the ordinary courts.
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Another weakness is the implicit assumption that underlying meaning can always be formulated in words.
criticism
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A wartime usefulness was found and implicit criticisms were not developed.
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In answer, one might presume that implicit justifications can exist to deal with implicit criticisms .
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This implicit justification also contains the seeds of its own implicit criticism .
faith
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The important thing to remember is to have implicit faith in the instrument indications, ignoring any contrary physical sensations.
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Today few fund managers have such implicit faith in property as an inflation-proof investment.
threat
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Is there not an implicit threat of legal proceedings in even the first demand for payment of a debt?
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The implicit threat of disease curtailed summer pleasures for the children of the polio years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Levy's statement could be understood as an implicit admission of guilt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her implicit plan of action is to manage peo-ple in the same fashion she always has.
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In the case of the land-user, implicit discount rates tend to be very high, particularly for the disadvantaged.
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It has to be possible to produce spontaneously original sentences which are based on implicit rules which allow generalisation.
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Planning and reviewing should be implicit in any team meeting - as much as the actual activity.
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Sometimes these are clearly stated but more often than not they are implicit in attitudes and actions.
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The clause was criticized by some as giving implicit authority to the army to stage further coups should they be deemed necessary.
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The individual receives an implicit yield on money because of its convenience value as a means of payment.
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The very notion of development and change over time is contained within the notion of implicit and explicit aspects of attitudes.