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As a historian of the FBI, I recognize the FBI has had only one other overtly political director in the past 50 years: L. Patrick Gray, who served for a year under President Richard Nixon.

From Salon

Without doing any searches themselves, investigators found overtly sexualised search terms being recommended in the "you may like" section of the app.

From BBC

Recommendations like these may not seem overtly sexist.

From Salon

Initially, they had been asked for patriotic posts about historical figures in Moldovan history - but gradually the demands had become overtly political.

From BBC

I’m actually amazed at how rude he’s behaving, how overtly he’s ignoring my friends.

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