overtone

Example Sentences

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But comments aimed at First Nations players - often with colonial overtones - are particularly intense and hurtful.

From BBC

“This was a major event, with significant overtones, that nobody talked about,” Pappas said, “while the officials responsible for releasing relevant information failed, and still fail, to do so.”

From Washington Post

But the Arizona vote did not carry the same partisan and racial overtones, with widespread and bipartisan condemnation for Harris’s actions.

From Washington Times

Then came reverse osmosis, a process with overtones of seventh-grade biology, which made another kind of substandard beer.

From Washington Post

For Democratic colleagues of Mr. Pearson and Mr. Jones, as well as some of their constituents, the expulsion of two Black lawmakers and survival of their white colleague had a distinct racial overtone.

From New York Times