overtly

overt | American Dictionary

overt
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/oʊˈvɜrt/
done or shown obviously or publicly; not hidden or secret:
There are no overt signs of damage.

overtly

adverb[ not gradable ]us/oʊˈvɜrt·li/
He refrained from overtly criticizing his opponent.

Examples of overt

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Indeed, we assume that the phonetic processes of the type described are generally not accessible to overt manipulation.
I was all of seventeen at the time, but there was no overt pressure from my parents.
This construction gives rise to an environment in which the supposedly resumptive strategy is possible even in the absence of the requisite overt morphological agreement.
Subject realization in syntactic development same information as is otherwise conveyed by overt subjects.
It is precisely this modifiability that allows individuals to achieve similar overt functions through different processes (equifinality) and different overt functions through similar processes (multifinality).
Thus, lower organisms are treated as inferring the internal states of other organisms from overt signals and then responding.
To the extent that extra-syntactic systems are responsible for overt subjects, there is less reason to attribute a lack of syntactic knowledge to the child.
As an analogical change, this would have been supported by the parallel use of modals and be in ellipsis contexts and with overt infinitives.
Such partiality can be exercised through overt pressures or through subtle constraints on open expression.
Demonstration of any expressive vocabulary would indicate that overt production is not an absolute necessity for some expressive vocabulary growth to occur.
The preference for stripped forms is evident from the paucity of overt inflectional affixes occurring in these early forms.
As expected in affirmative imperatives, clitics obligatorily follow verbs regardless of their overt morphology.
The latter type displays a fairly complex distribution, owing to the fact that it can sometimes appear in contexts without overt negation.
We did not give any treatment to our fetus, since overt circulatory failure did not develop during the carefully monitored fetal course.
While the volume contains some interesting material, it is unlikely to recommend itself to readers who do not share its very overt confessional outlook.
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