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  • They stopped just short of something overt that would require notice.†  (source)
  • She could go back to Jerusalem, back to her work at Hadassah, back to the overt world.†  (source)
  • I wouldn't be faced with physical attack, or with overt shows of hatred.†  (source)
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  • The only downside was the risk of angering the judge by such an overt attempt at earwigging, and what would the judge do other than to tell Jake to shut up?†  (source)
  • Noah Hutchins, in fact, a human being, was overtly, on purpose, touching my scars.†  (source)
  • —FOR THEIR ALLEGED 'OVERT INDISCRETIONS'; I BELIEVE THE TWO INCIDENTS FALL UNDER THE PUNISHABLE OFFENSE OF 'MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE CONDUCT WITH GIRLS.'†  (source)
  • As a reformist movement that never overtly questioned the traditional values of a caste-ridden, extremely traditional community.†  (source)
  • She looks at him without blinking, and though she gives no overt indication that she has recognized him, and though her smile is polite, there is something amused and distant about her expression, playful, sly, unintimidated.†  (source)
  • But Pittman never overtly made such a claim herself; indeed, she emphasized in an article for Men's Journal that she wanted Breashears, Lowe, Swenson, and Blanchard "to understand that I didn't confuse my avid-hobbyist abilities with their world —class skill."†  (source)
  • In your case, Jim old chap, it's overt.†  (source)
  • They did not mean for it to say too much overtly, and at the same time they wished for it to say everything.†  (source)
  • He moved on her with that same centered confidence she'd seen in him all along;; only now, focused exclusively on her, in this new domain, it was both more overt and intense.†  (source)
  • He jumped to his feet and held his Transvice at the ready, without overtly showing it as a threat.†  (source)
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