Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Only one bid in these categories outside the specialist institutions did not make such collaboration overt.

Modifies a noun

• hypothyroidism: Patients with detectable levels are more likely to progress to overt hypothyroidism.

• racism: They saw at first hand the hurt that overt racism could cause young children.

• hostility: We know that the long history of visitation has produced little evidence of overt hostility.

• sexuality: He designed numerous theater sets; his 1908 design for Oscar Wilde's Salome was censored for its overt sexuality.

• manifestation: According to the hypothesis, the overt manifestation of schizophrenic symptoms is a relatively uncommon outcome of a more common condition.

• aggression: You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: These links are explicit, current and increasingly overt.

• too: I think if the violence is too overt the romance is lost.

• even: Even overt research, where the participants are fully aware of the researcher's aims, can be held up to ethical scrutiny.

• little: There is little overt interest in radical theology, meaning a non-realist theology, in South Africa.

• very: It was really a very overt sin on Peter's part.

• not: The echo of natural forms is there to be discovered in imagination: it is not overt.

Used with adjective complement

• become: In the run-up to the election, the courting of the " gray vote " became even more overt.

• make: The content of different modules should not necessarily accord equal importance to PTS but the PTS component should be made overt.