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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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  • No overt signs of struggle or sexual assault.†  (source)
  • Noah Hutchins, in fact, a human being, was overtly, on purpose, touching my scars.†  (source)
  • But from where I sit doing that could be called anything from piracy to an overt act of war.†  (source)
  • As a reformist movement that never overtly questioned the traditional values of a caste-ridden, extremely traditional community.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • It was never said overtly, but ...we all had a sense something big was coming, and we've been drilled on what to do.†  (source)
  • —FOR THEIR ALLEGED 'OVERT INDISCRETIONS'; I BELIEVE THE TWO INCIDENTS FALL UNDER THE PUNISHABLE OFFENSE OF 'MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE CONDUCT WITH GIRLS.'†  (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)
  • I bore this with an overt detachment unknown to me in mortal life and came to understand this as a part of vampire nature: that I might sit at home at Pointe du Lac and think for hours of my brother's mortal life and see it short and rounded in unfathomable darkness, understanding now the vain and senseless wasting passion with which I'd mourned his loss and turned on other mortals like a maddened animal.†  (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)
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