as in overlying
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
Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Preller and Hundley missed overlapping in San Diego by just a couple months.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
This overlapping setup allowed Sam to reduce the frame size dramatically without sacrificing stability.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
The overlapping filings show that Amanda was positioned as a potential witness for both sides in the weeks before Kohberger’s plea.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Ironically, Nvidia also unveiled a similar collaboration with OpenAI back in September — prompting some analysts to question whether these overlapping deals are creating circular revenue streams that could eventually come under scrutiny.
—Benzinga, Freep.com, 11 Oct. 2025
David Villa passes back, with Jordi Alba making the overlapping run.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Unlike overlapping or hook-and-eye designs that can get tricky, the zipper makes bathroom trips much easier—an incredibly practical feature.
—Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025
Watch for overlapping funds that can add risk When the S&P 500′s returns were down between 2002 and 2009, areas like small cap, value, international and even bonds performed better than that index, Panambur said.
—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
The songs tend to be three different love stories, with overlapping narrators stepping on each other’s toes.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Preller and Hundley missed overlapping in San Diego by just a couple months.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
This overlapping setup allowed Sam to reduce the frame size dramatically without sacrificing stability.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
The overlapping filings show that Amanda was positioned as a potential witness for both sides in the weeks before Kohberger’s plea.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Ironically, Nvidia also unveiled a similar collaboration with OpenAI back in September — prompting some analysts to question whether these overlapping deals are creating circular revenue streams that could eventually come under scrutiny.
—Benzinga, Freep.com, 11 Oct. 2025
David Villa passes back, with Jordi Alba making the overlapping run.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Unlike overlapping or hook-and-eye designs that can get tricky, the zipper makes bathroom trips much easier—an incredibly practical feature.
—Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025
Watch for overlapping funds that can add risk When the S&P 500′s returns were down between 2002 and 2009, areas like small cap, value, international and even bonds performed better than that index, Panambur said.
—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlapping
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 manosphere—an intersecting web of influencers and communities that run the gamut from self-improvement to neo-misogyny and white supremacy—offers a counterfeit version of these needs.—
Jonathon Reed,
Time,
8 Oct. 2025
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With intersecting stripes of various colors and widths, the quintessential fall print is a timeless style that always resurges at this time of year.—
Nicol Natale,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 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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Goldman Sachs analysts indicated that at least so far, the rise in stock prices has been accompanied by solid underlying growth.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
14 Oct. 2025
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Aaron Scott, a partner at Dechert in London, noted that CLOs issued since 2013 benefit from improved structural protections put in place in the years following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis — such as lower leverage, stricter ratings criteria and tougher tests on the underlying loan collateral.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Podlesí is notorious for its boring atmosphere, overlaying everything like a thick blanket.—
Zuzana Říhová,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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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
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
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 20 Oct. 2025.
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