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to lie over parts of one another
the brochures on the display table should overlap but not so much that the titles are obscured
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Recent Examples of overlapping
Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2025
Here, thousands of those funnels merge into a single, multilayered structure draped across the cave's walls, where thousands of individuals live peacefully side by side in overlapping webs.
—New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2025
These overlapping vulnerabilities show why water governance is such a key issue for security, diplomacy and development.
—Pintu Kumar Mahla, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
Everyone — including Grande and Erivo — jumps and looks around as overlapping voices ask what’s going on.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
Without regulation that mirrors modern scientific concern, Wicker recommends that brands adopt multiple layers of protection via multiple, overlapping certifications that span raw fiber to finished product.
—Sophie Benson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
There were clusters of nests found close together or overlapping, and crescents of nests arranged in a curved line, like a crescent moon.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
The agreement commits both nations to withdraw heavy weapons from border areas, clear unexploded ordinance, manage overlapping territorial zones, among other commitments to peaceful co-existence.
—Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 27 Oct. 2025
Javier Mascherano’s side took firm control in the 62nd minute when Messi, hovering deep, fed overlapping fullback Ian Fray down the right, and the Jamaican international’s cross was perfectly headed home by Tadeo Allende.
—The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
The group was encased in wrap-around screens projecting visuals of their performance and only barely visible as the slow-burn groove of the song unfurled over beautifully overlapping guitars.
—Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2025
Here, thousands of those funnels merge into a single, multilayered structure draped across the cave's walls, where thousands of individuals live peacefully side by side in overlapping webs.
—New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2025
These overlapping vulnerabilities show why water governance is such a key issue for security, diplomacy and development.
—Pintu Kumar Mahla, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
Everyone — including Grande and Erivo — jumps and looks around as overlapping voices ask what’s going on.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
Without regulation that mirrors modern scientific concern, Wicker recommends that brands adopt multiple layers of protection via multiple, overlapping certifications that span raw fiber to finished product.
—Sophie Benson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
There were clusters of nests found close together or overlapping, and crescents of nests arranged in a curved line, like a crescent moon.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
The agreement commits both nations to withdraw heavy weapons from border areas, clear unexploded ordinance, manage overlapping territorial zones, among other commitments to peaceful co-existence.
—Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 27 Oct. 2025
Javier Mascherano’s side took firm control in the 62nd minute when Messi, hovering deep, fed overlapping fullback Ian Fray down the right, and the Jamaican international’s cross was perfectly headed home by Tadeo Allende.
—The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlapping
Adjective
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Earlier this week, pink-and-green sleeping sets with artwork of intersecting scissors started showing up on a small handful of online retailers.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
24 Oct. 2025
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Regretting You essentially splits itself into two occasionally intersecting plots, that of Morgan and Jonah’s healing and of Clara’s nascent romance.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Earth’s substantial atmosphere and geomagnetic field block most (but not all) of this bombardment, and the sunless interiors of worlds without these properties still get protection from overlying material.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The underlying universal themes of fatherhood and family bonds spoke to me and my own experience directly.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
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Bad fuel, hydraulic contamination, corrosion, or software glitches can cause catastrophic failures, sometimes in clusters if underlying maintenance issues exist.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The sight of hundreds of tiny turtle hatchlings toddling their way down to the lapping ocean waves is the surest way to take your breath away.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 Oct. 2025
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Rice was lapping the entire league.—
Sam McDowell
October 17,
Kansas City Star,
17 Oct. 2025
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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In Texas, overlaying precincts with current and proposed maps shows how elections could unfold.—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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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
Adjective
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This region is shaped by the subduction of multiple tectonic plates at convergent boundaries.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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While social traits appear to be convergent among different species here on Earth, there’s also no reason to think that something similar would not happen elsewhere in our great cosmic beyond, Bryson argues in her Reykjavik talk.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Overlapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlapping. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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