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noun

Definition of overlap

as in lapping

a partial covering of one thing by an adjoining member the orthodontist will try to fix that overlap of two of your upper incisors

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verb

ˌō-vər-ˈlap

as in to overlie

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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Below against Gent, Seys shifts infield and frees up Tzolis to run on the overlap. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 16 July 2026 In fact, while Grozeva and Valchanov are profoundly grounded in their north Balkan homeland, there’s a lot of sensibility overlap here with the absurdism of the Greek Weird Wave of 2010s. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026

Verb

The Classic, on the other hand, saves weight by omitting the zipper and using an overlapping design that requires staking into place via the guy line. — New Atlas, 18 July 2026 Tap the Screen Mirroring button , which looks like two overlapping rectangles. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for overlap

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Noun

The Wave percale sheets are guaranteed to lull you to sleep, like you’re being rocked by the gentle lapping of the ocean.

— Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 13 July 2026
From my perch on a sun lounger, Friendship Bay stretches out below me – the curve of the powdery sand beach, the impossible blue of the sea and the calming lapping of the waves against the shore.

— Rebekah Evans, TheWeek, 5 Feb. 2026

Definition of lapping

Verb

The audience of employees lapped up every word, giggled at every dad joke.

— Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
With just a bit more than a month to go before the primary election on August 18, polls show Byron Donalds lapping the field for the Republican nomination while David Jolly has a solid lead among Democrats.

— CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 12 July 2026

Definition of lap

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His team spent about a month overlaying influenza trends on card spending, hunting for spikes at drugstores, and found a relationship that was never clean enough to use.

— John Drake, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
In novels such as Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go, Yasunari Kawabata wedded stream-of-consciousness to classical forms of ritual and performance, modeling rapid Japanese westernization through stories that overlay the ancient and the modern.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

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