The phrase "explicitly distinguished" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe when something is clearly and specifically identified or separated from something else. Example: In her essay, the author explicitly distinguished between religious and cultural traditions, emphasizing the importance of understanding each one separately.
An 1857 editorial in the Greencastle, Ind., newspaper encouraged women to take up temperance reform in order to save their sons from the saloonkeepers, but it explicitly distinguished this call from appeals to women's rights, which the editorialist rejected.
No participants explicitly distinguished Conjunction and Non-Conjunction sequences.
However, no previous work has explicitly distinguished between instructions that refer to 'urges' versus to 'choosing'choosing
Muir explicitly distinguished this kind of understanding of aesthetic appreciation from that governed by the idea of the picturesque.
From now on, however, we use the term curve to mean contour unless it is explicitly distinguished.
These discussions pertained to moral objectivity, but moral relativism as a thesis explicitly distinguished from moral skepticism ordinarily was not in focus.
Meadows boldly attempts to reclaim the skinhead from the traditional neo-Nazi image, explicitly distinguishing his characters from a separate racist influence, and presenting them as an anarchic youth tribe that idolised West Indian music.
The perception of "safety" that Streetscore approximates is defined vaguely, since the survey doesn't explicitly distinguish between traffic violence and violent crime.The interest, of course, lies in that bolded phrase.
Because the origins of recent diasporas are existing or potential nation-states, some authors qualify these as ethno-national diasporas to explicitly distinguish them from transnational networks in general that have developed in the context of globalization.
In fact, Locke explicitly distinguishes it from the pleasure expected in the afterlife.
Dewey characterized value judgments as instrumental in three senses that he did not explicitly distinguish.
