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
Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Global sustainability efforts risk fragmentation, with overlapping certifications and inconsistent standards.
—Sunny Tan, Sourcing Journal, 22 Oct. 2025
Most of the time, these overlapping commitments are networking chats with colleagues.
—Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
The veteran shooters have overlapping skill sets, so once Brogdon took himself out of the fold, New York wasn’t as eager to create an open roster to keep two similar players.
—James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
His ties to the president go back to their overlapping service in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces in the late 1990s.
—CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
While many of these cards offer similar and overlapping benefits, some are better than others.
—Ryley Amond, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
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
This overlapping setup allowed Sam to reduce the frame size dramatically without sacrificing stability.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
In the South China Sea, where China and its neighbors assert overlapping sovereignty claims, SLOCs are vulnerable to conflict.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Global sustainability efforts risk fragmentation, with overlapping certifications and inconsistent standards.
—Sunny Tan, Sourcing Journal, 22 Oct. 2025
Most of the time, these overlapping commitments are networking chats with colleagues.
—Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
The veteran shooters have overlapping skill sets, so once Brogdon took himself out of the fold, New York wasn’t as eager to create an open roster to keep two similar players.
—James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
His ties to the president go back to their overlapping service in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces in the late 1990s.
—CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
While many of these cards offer similar and overlapping benefits, some are better than others.
—Ryley Amond, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
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
This overlapping setup allowed Sam to reduce the frame size dramatically without sacrificing stability.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 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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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
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The intersecting street was the responsibility of the city, but the traffic signals were the responsibility of the county.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 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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But Saunders noted that Amazon is not immune to outside factors, as global markets tighten and underlying costs climb.—
Michelle Chapman,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
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These symptoms, known as urinary urgency and frequency, have many causes, including infections and underlying health conditions.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
25 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 30 Oct. 2025.
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