The phrase "ask explicitly for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize that a request should be made in a clear and direct manner.
Example: "In order to avoid any misunderstandings, please ask explicitly for the information you need during the meeting."
Alternatives: "request clearly" or "demand specifically".
Jamey recognized that he was being bullied and asked explicitly for help, but this is not always the case.
On numerous occasions, Mr. Keker asked Mr. Brodsky why he insisted on conveying to Mr. Quattrone that the federal and regulatory investigations were concerned only with the allocation process for initial public offerings when the subpoenas asked explicitly for data covering all aspects of the public offering process.
To be clear, QuizUp is not retaining any contact data on their servers, which was another major component of the Path case, and it asks explicitly for user permission to use the data to find friends.
Since these idiots understand that it's a sensitive issue, they always try to build up to it gradually by asking general questions about scripts and portraits before finally asking explicitly for an SS-skull, runes, or in the worst cases: a huge Hitler portrait.
Participants are asked explicitly for their agreement to the type of data being collected and to this mode of management.
However, there was not a separate VNOS-C item that asked explicitly for the definition of a theory, nor for students to distinguish theories from laws.
An even higher correlation might be obtained by asking explicitly for side changes of headaches and tinnitus, which we did not do in this study.
A pilot tested the survey.> Friendship networks explore passive information diffusion, while communication networks have a more instrumental nature (e.g. asking explicitly for help on a certain topic) (Ibarra and Andrews 1993; Katz et al. 2004).
