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The phrase "an explicit idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a clear and detailed concept or thought that is directly expressed.
Example: "The author presented an explicit idea about the importance of environmental conservation in her essay."
Alternatives: "a clear concept" or "a definite notion".
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Since Nobel had an explicit idea of the kind of writing he wished to promote (morally uplifting and idealistic), the very notion of a financial award was contentious from the outset.
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This year's issue threw out the idea of an explicit theme or photograph style, with the editors choosing instead to focus on the creatives behind the camera.
So we'll try to develop a tool that can give you a spatially explicit idea of the risk, or the likelihood that drinking water will be contaminated should a release occur.
To gain a more explicit idea of what aspects of shape variation were explained by individual QTL, we used a regression-based method to visualize the effect of the marker closest to the LOD peak of each QTL for craniofacial shape.
The discovery of new geographic realities introduced an unmistakable, sometimes very explicit idea of progress.
However, although it has roots in Leopold's thought, the explicit idea of an ecological aesthetic, or as it is sometimes called, an ecoaesthetic, seems to have somewhat later origins (Meeker 1872, Koh 1988).
Unlike new service introduction and integration projects, in which the scope for new idea generation is rarely possible, there is an explicit 'new idea generation' stage (③ in Figure 4).
Deduction of LGT events from phylogenetic trees is often based on the implicit or explicit idea of a reference tree that accurately describes the evolutionary relationships between the organisms under consideration [ 9- 11].
The antisemite often claims to be the real victim of those who accuse them of their antisemitism with the explicit idea that Jews cannot be trusted on the subject as they are not objective enough.
That he was on the verge of developing a geographically based theory of species births is confirmed in the opening pages of his Notebook B (written between 1836 and 1837, see Kohn 1987 for transcriptions)—where the analogy between births and deaths of individuals and species is again prominent along with the explicit idea that new species arise in geographic isolation.
Thematic analysis was performed through a focus on identifying and describing both implicit and explicit ideas within the data (i.e. themes) that were derived from the interviews with our subjects, after audio-recorded interviews were transcribed into free-flow text.
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