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Recommendations like these may not seem overtly sexist.

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

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

He's a festival headliner with punch-the-sky choruses whose lyrics are overtly political.

From BBC

Richard’s family was Orthodox Jewish, from Lithuania, and though the Baltimores in America were not overtly religious, the family communicated a moral code that influenced their son’s concern for the underprivileged.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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