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  • "Overt" nipples are always airbrushed off covers everywhere on every magazine - it's a fact of life.

    Playboy: This Is Pointless! Cosmo7 2009

  • Overt racial hostility aside, though, people also have a more benign tendency toward associating with people who are like themselves—whether by conscious choice or owing to other choices such as where they work or go to school that produce racially uniform social networks.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Overt, sometimes violent anti-Semitism had almost entirely vanished, the horrors of the Holocaust still fresh in the minds of our parents' generation.

    Jonathan Miller: How Adam Sandler's 'Chanukah Song' Helped Save The Jews Jonathan 2011

  • Overt politics arrive in the late 1960s, when such Fluxus and Happenings artists as Wolf Vostell, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Yoyoi Kusama, and others will go on to make individual Fluxus events and Happenings of a political nature, while the free-flowing and open-ended nature of the work of the groups as a whole inspired later political street theater and grassroots protest movements, including the be-ins, love-ins, and sit-ins of the hippies and yippies.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Overt, sometimes violent anti-Semitism had almost entirely vanished, the horrors of the Holocaust still fresh in the minds of our parents' generation.

    Jonathan Miller: How Adam Sandler's 'Chanukah Song' Helped Save The Jews Jonathan 2011

  • Zywicki: “Overt time, the empirical evidence has largely turned me from the Friedman position to the Niskanen position.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Starve the Beast: 2010

  • Overt criticism of police efforts haven't been widespread as the country continues to reel from the attack, and many have praised the police for their response under difficult circumstances.

    Police Face Criticism Over Response Time Niclas Rolander 2011

  • Overt politics arrive in the late 1960s, when such Fluxus and Happenings artists as Wolf Vostell, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Yoyoi Kusama, and others will go on to make individual Fluxus events and Happenings of a political nature, while the free-flowing and open-ended nature of the work of the groups as a whole inspired later political street theater and grassroots protest movements, including the be-ins, love-ins, and sit-ins of the hippies and yippies.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • "Overt, explicit expressions of racial bias are rare," he said, because race remains an uncomfortable topic that many people are loath to address squarely.

    Death-Penalty Racial Law Is Tested Ashby Jones 2012

  • Lucius: Zywicki: “Overt time, the empirical evidence has largely turned me from the Friedman position to the Niskanen position.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Starve the Beast: 2010

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