overt
adjective
: open to view : manifest
overt hostility
overt symptoms of the disease
overt discrimination
both overt and covert military action
overtness
noun
Examples of overt in a Sentence
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The company was suspicious, but this was the first overt notice that our place of work was corrupt.
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Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
While The Sympathizer spares no faction from criticism, both the book and series also harbor overt ideological aims.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
The action lurches from overt satire to romantic jousting and soap-operatic family melodrama; the performances have a declamatory pseudo-amateurism in keeping with the film’s statements of personal self-assertion and political purpose.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
What’s new, say legal experts, is a state’s use of the National Guard as an overt political challenge to federal immigration authority.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
Goldstone says the conservative majority ignored ample evidence from two lower court decisions — one from a federal court judge appointed by former President George W. Bush — which concluded that the VRA’s preclearance was still needed because overt discrimination in voting persisted.
—John Blake, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
Flavors like mango and fruit were an overt attempt to market to underage vapers, tobacco watchdogs said.
—USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, the hostilities, both overt and covert, have been allowed to continue.
—The Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2024
Unlike traditional horror, thrillers often keep us in suspense with the power of suggestion and implication, using every trick in the cinematic playbook to get our hearts racing while withholding overt depictions of what makes the characters anxious.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2024
Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
While The Sympathizer spares no faction from criticism, both the book and series also harbor overt ideological aims.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
The action lurches from overt satire to romantic jousting and soap-operatic family melodrama; the performances have a declamatory pseudo-amateurism in keeping with the film’s statements of personal self-assertion and political purpose.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
What’s new, say legal experts, is a state’s use of the National Guard as an overt political challenge to federal immigration authority.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
Goldstone says the conservative majority ignored ample evidence from two lower court decisions — one from a federal court judge appointed by former President George W. Bush — which concluded that the VRA’s preclearance was still needed because overt discrimination in voting persisted.
—John Blake, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
Flavors like mango and fruit were an overt attempt to market to underage vapers, tobacco watchdogs said.
—USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, the hostilities, both overt and covert, have been allowed to continue.
—The Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2024
Unlike traditional horror, thrillers often keep us in suspense with the power of suggestion and implication, using every trick in the cinematic playbook to get our hearts racing while withholding overt depictions of what makes the characters anxious.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2024
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“Overt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overt. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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overt
adjective
: open to view : not secret
overt hostility
overtly
adverb
overtness
noun
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