as in underlying
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as in overlying
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as in coating
to form a layer over
you should apply a coat of primer first, and then overlay it with two coats of paint
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as in overlapping
to lie over parts of one another
cedar shingles overlaying one another on the roof
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Recent Examples of overlaying
Liam Tharme, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
Fears was one of the most vocal supporters of a $55 million general obligation bond approved by Independence voters last year, earmarked for rebuilding and overlaying streets around Independence.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
As music played in the background, overlaying captions appeared on screen beside Bader, 30, who underwent bariatric surgery in December 2023.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
Trying to tap the ice sheet, which covers 80 percent of Greenland, for minerals is unappealing, given that all the necessary supplies would need to be brought inland by helicopter and there are kilometers of ice overlaying parts of the rock.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
In Texas, overlaying precincts with current and proposed maps shows how elections could unfold.
—Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
The Quantum Internet will not replace the classical Internet but augment it, overlaying quantum signals with classical bits.
—Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
Podlesí is notorious for its boring atmosphere, overlaying everything like a thick blanket.
—Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Last year at Connect, Meta unveiled its Orion glasses, which are a prototype capable of overlaying complex 3D visuals onto the physical world.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
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For that, organizers turn to the same technology used when Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya broke the two-hour-marathon barrier in 2019, overlaying data onto potential routes to find the optimal one.
—Liam Tharme, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
Fears was one of the most vocal supporters of a $55 million general obligation bond approved by Independence voters last year, earmarked for rebuilding and overlaying streets around Independence.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
As music played in the background, overlaying captions appeared on screen beside Bader, 30, who underwent bariatric surgery in December 2023.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
Trying to tap the ice sheet, which covers 80 percent of Greenland, for minerals is unappealing, given that all the necessary supplies would need to be brought inland by helicopter and there are kilometers of ice overlaying parts of the rock.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
In Texas, overlaying precincts with current and proposed maps shows how elections could unfold.
—Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
The Quantum Internet will not replace the classical Internet but augment it, overlaying quantum signals with classical bits.
—Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
Podlesí is notorious for its boring atmosphere, overlaying everything like a thick blanket.
—Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Last year at Connect, Meta unveiled its Orion glasses, which are a prototype capable of overlaying complex 3D visuals onto the physical world.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlaying
Adjective
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The other view is that the underlying expenses were paid in fiat, so any award should be paid in pounds.—
Susie Violet Ward,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Although our modern fights are different, many of the same underlying issues remain — entrenched biases, efforts to limit women’s roles and rights, attacks on women’s autonomy, and attempts to raise doubts on women’s abilities, especially those of Black women.—
Jocelyn Frye,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 June 2026
Verb
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Thick colonies are already coating boats, piers and pipelines.—
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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Standing before it, Khalaf saw how the wall of the adjacent building had toppled onto the ground floor, flooding the shop with rubble and coating everything with a film of fine gray dust.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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Audiences now live inside thousands of overlapping microcultures competing for attention simultaneously.—
Marc Adelman,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
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Their shows are driven by a physicality both intricately choreographed and fizzily chaotic, tightness and looseness alternating — even somehow overlapping — in a rolling series of lazzi and dances, fistfights and slapstick routines.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
14 June 2026
Adjective
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Again, the superposed vector can be decomposed into its constituents.—
Anil Ananthaswamy,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Apr. 2023
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Like entanglement, the superposed states essential to its power are fragile, collapsing when measured or otherwise perturbed by the outside world.—
Gabriel Popkin,
Science | AAAS,
3 June 2021
Verb
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Our managing editor Hannah Wise shares about how The Star is covering the World Cup.—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
21 June 2026
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The clinic provides standard all-inclusive packages covering hotel, transfers, and translation.—
Ascend Agency,
New York Daily News,
21 June 2026
Verb
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Any longer may damage your overlying skin and even give you frostbite.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The local agricultural cooperative now struggles given the absence of irrigated agriculture in that area overlying the Ogallala.—
Allen Best,
Denver Post,
14 June 2026
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“Overlaying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlaying. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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