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How to use the word OVERT in a Sentence?

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Donbass Devushka’s success has even been noticed by Russian diplomats and overt propagandists, who have retweeted the account dozens of times this year.

Joe Bodnar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Donbass Devushka Telegram, Twitter, YouTube, and Spotify accounts more-or-less function as disinformation aggregators and amplifiers, donbass Devushka’s success has even been noticed by Russian diplomats and overt propagandists, who have retweeted the account dozens of times this year.

Joe Bodnar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We did not find any overt vulnerabilities regarding their communication protocols, nor did we find any overt security problems within the app, regarding privacy, we also did not see the TikTok app exhibiting any behaviors similar to malware.

Pellaeon Lin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I find it very, very surprising, antisemitism has always been there, it’s either been just around the corner and slightly out of sight but always lurking, or it has been much more overt like in Germany in the ’30s. But not since Germany in the ‘30s have I witnessed antisemitism no longer lurking, but standing proud with hands on hips like Hitler and Mussolini, kind of daring us to defy it. I’ve never experienced this in my entire life, especially in this country.

Steven Spielberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When a woman is in her late 20s or early 30s, the rest of her tissue is functioning at peak performance, but her ovaries are already showing overt signs of aging, yet most women learn about their ovaries and ovarian function when they go to use them for the first time and find out they're geriatric.

Jennifer Garrison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ovaries are very strange, very odd in terms of the rest of the human body. We can think about them like an accelerated model for human aging, when a woman is in her late 20s or early 30s, the rest of her tissue is functioning at peak performance, but her ovaries are already showing overt signs of aging.

Jennifer Garrison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So, Russia is essentially making overt what it has denied for some time, which is Russian troop presence in these places, and we’re taking steps in response to that.

Jon Finer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Although they have denied it, Russian troop presence in exactly the two—what they call republics, but they’re really provinces of a sovereign Ukraine—that they recognized yesterday, so, Russia is essentially making overt what it has denied for some time, which is Russian troop presence in these places, and we’re taking steps in response to that.

Jon Finer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In terms of timelines, what we've seen up until now has been very overt signaling of the intention for the ability to invade Ukraines Donetsk.

Sam Cranny-Evans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we can cover it without taking a side per se in an overt way. I think the audience and the readers are sophisticated enough when they read what’s going on to draw their own conclusions about whether it’s good or bad for our democracy.

Noah Oppenheim

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The first parade has some pretty overt racial symbolism and intimidation. The VP was armed, and there was an executioner’s block on the float, etc..

Thomas Spencer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Nobody's going to leave Afghanistan alone, so you can expect the Pakistanis and the Russians, the Chinese, the central Asians and the Iranians to continue to play there, this is not the end of the Afghan wars. This is the end of the overt American phase of the Afghan war.

Stephen Biddle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our nation has an unforgivable history of murdering Black men and women, comparing a lynching to holding the president accountable is hurtful and insensitive, and ignores the overt White supremacy on display during the insurrection Wednesday.

Suzanne Bonamici

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This is an overt campaign act, kedric Payne's been riding the line in making statements about Biden at White House events. This is beyond the line.

Kedric Payne

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Recent events are a heavy reminder of ongoing injustices in society, from the denial of basic human rights to the impact of racism both overt and subtle against people of color, the team is eager to move Fortnite forward, but we need to balance the Season 3 launch with time for the team to focus on themselves, their families, and their communities.

Epic Games

Found on CNN
3 years ago

9/11 ushered covert and overt surveillance regimes, many of which were unlawful.

Edin Omanovic

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It would be a much more dramatic step to declare China to be an enemy power with which the U.S. is at war, given the president has at times touted his friendship with and respect for President Xi (Jinping), that would amount to an overt declaration, while IEEPA would allow the Trump administration to take similar actions without as large of a diplomatic cost.

Mark Wu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What is depicted, however, is Slaton not complying with multiple requests to show his hands and Slaton making overt actions which led officers to discharge their firearms.

Chief Ed Kraus

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Given the threat posed by the President's alleged misconduct, our first hearing will focus on President Trump's most overt acts of obstruction, in the coming weeks, other hearings will focus on other important aspects of the Mueller report.

Jerry Nadler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As such cases go, the jury seemed to find the conduct was very overt.

Rachel Maimin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It doesn't take an overt slur for these individuals to basically become emboldened and to recognize and be excited by policies that they see would further their goals, when they hear the President say things like,' I'm not a racist,' they turn around amongst themselves and say,' He just has to say that for practical reasons,'' he just has to say that basically to get himself cover, to do the things that we want him to do,'.

Keegan Hankes

Found on CNN
5 years ago

More and more people are starting to believe that only strong-handed authority, anti-European and anti-liberal in spirit, with a tendency towards overt authoritarianism, is capable of stopping the wave of illegal migration, if people believe them, that only they can offer an effective solution to the migration crisis, they will also believe anything else they say.

Donald Tusk

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think there are two interrelated things underlying this new secrecy, an overt push by the agency to move away from regulating and enforcing and instead toward treating regulated entities as clients to whom they provide services.

Delcianna Winders

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Trump administration seems to regard overt threats, including tariffs and repudiation of previous agreements, as a key element for gaining leverage in trade negotiations.

Eswar Prasad

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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