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Six example sentences with covert, each labelled with its topic.
Half the film follows a covert unit whose members never appear in uniform and deny the mission even to family.
Movies
The board ran a covert search for a new chief executive, briefing only three directors and using a coded project name.
Business
Rangers set covert cameras along the ridge, leaving no signage, so poachers would never learn which trails were watched.
Environment
Researchers call it covert attention when you watch one spot but track something else without moving your eyes at all.
Psychology
The senator ran a covert campaign for the leadership, counting votes in private while denying any interest in public.
Politics
The coach uses covert hand signals from the bench, since the other team's staff reads every shouted play call.
Basketball
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