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Discover LudwigThe phrase "overt references" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe instances where a person or object is indirectly mentioned or alluded to with obvious implications. For example, you could say "the author's novel contained several overt references to the current political climate".
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(Ms. Ackermann makes no overt references to Mr. Prince's pictures, but the comparison is inevitable).
In a nod to those changing tastes, political parties are dropping overt references to religion.
Curiously, Ms. Booker's sculptures make few overt references to her African-American heritage.
In the rest of Europe, such overt references to Germany's past are often seen as taboo.
However, overt references to LGBT equality were removed from the final agreement, Pink News reports.
While she made multiple references to being a woman in her speeches, Ms. Braun limited overt references to race.
("The Warm Up," his second mixtape, is flooded with both sly and overt references to sex and superficial luxuries).
The overt references to the Tiananmen massacre in "Summer Palace" are practically unheard of in a mainland Chinese film.
The score, specially created by Clarence Jackson, includes overt references to composers from Stravinsky to Gershwin, as well as the loud blowing of a whistle.
This Biennial is undemanding — what with frisky works about snowboarding, mosh pits, and psychics — and it is remarkably free of abrasive politics and overt references to sex.
Kawara settled in New York in 1964, and his later work is devoid of such overt references to the horrors of war, but it is informed by them.
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