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How to use the word covertly in a Sentence?

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The indicted intelligence officers, in particular, participated in covertly funding and directing candidates for local office within the United States.

– Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There needs to be a choice, right now, whats happening is these technologies are being deployed widely without oversight, oftentimes covertly, so that by the time we wake up, its almost too late.

– Joy Buolamwini

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This is just another example of the almost Shakespearian drama that has unfolded between Nick Heras and Turkey since 2016, there is a real sentiment within the pro-Erdogan camp that the US was covertly a backer of the 2016 coup against Erdogan Erdogan.

– Nick Heras

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is just another example of the almost Shakespearian drama that has unfolded between United States and Turkey since 2016, there is a real sentiment within the pro-Erdogan camp that the US was covertly a backer of the 2016 coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

– United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Foreign governments should not be secret participants, covertly spreading propaganda and fanning the flames of division.

– Rod Rosenstein

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I can’t see ISIS disappearing into thin air, they will remain covertly in sleeping cells, spreading their venom all over the world.

– Ayad Allawi

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You can be certain the mullahs (Iran's leaders) are not going to call us in Washington when they decide to breach the agreement. They're going to sneak out, covertly, gradually over time, when they think we're not looking.

– Robert Menendez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The parameters of the interim deal, in essence, establish an internationally recognized, 10-year nuclear research and development program. Until we know more about Iran's previous research, no nation can be sure of what Iran may have developed covertly already.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

My government will not allow any religious group, belonging to the majority or the minority, to incite hatred against others, overtly or covertly.

– Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

– Olive Schreiner

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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