Designed
Designed adjective - Done or made or performed with purpose and intent.
Explicitly and designed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Explicitly" instead an adverb "Designed".
Explicitly
Explicitly adverb - In an explicit manner.
Designed and explicitly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Designed" instead an adverb "Explicitly".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Made worse by the thing destroying the missiles, Cerberus, being explicitly a failsafe designed to stop nukes from going off.
Source: Film / Olympus Has Fallen -
It is explicitly mentioned that the reason they won was because the people who designed The Battle Star believed that boarding parties went out of style with wooden sailing ships.
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There are further hints that this may be a mask designed expressly for the purpose, although it's explicitly contradicted by the prequels.
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Explicitly and Designed. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/designed/explicitly
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