Collocations withovertone
These are words often used in combination withovertone.
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moral overtone
There is a slight moral overtone in the report, suggesting that single parent families are somehow deficient.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
overtone series
Here begins the 'acoustic chorale', a sequence of six- or seven-pitch chords imbued with intervallic allusions to the acoustic overtone series.
From theCambridge English Corpus
political overtone
To do that is almost impossible, for there is practically no subject which has not in its true sense a political overtone.
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racial overtones
Further, the totem-pole, an ethnic image, complicates the regional construction of identity by layering it with racial overtones.
From theCambridge English Corpus
religious overtone
He added a religious overtone, asserting that his creatures were working for the fulfillment of the kingdom.
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