as in intersecting
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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
Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
In the past couple years, AI has permeated the music industry in several overlapping but distinct ways.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Mar. 2026
That approach breaks down as complexity increases, and women’s financial lives often involve more overlapping roles and decision-makers.
—Dan Cavanaugh, Forbes.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Its dealers also have non-overlapping territories, which reduces competition, according to the complaints.
—Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
Fields emphasized that Saratoga and Los Gatos share many similarities and overlapping jurisdictions, such as the school district.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
The reserve manager, the issuer, and the settlement chain are now connected through overlapping commercial interests.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
The patterns bear the hallmarks of overlapping portfolio-management strategies, often index-based and much of it likely automated, and all of it difficult to disentangle.
—Justina Lee, Fortune, 23 May 2026
Typically, the task force is made of 16 independent volunteer preventive medicine experts who serve four-year, overlapping terms.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
The restructuring will reduce overlapping roles in TurboTax and Credit Karma as the company integrates both into a single team.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
That drone touches down at the address of architect Otone Komoto (Haruka Ayase), who designed her family’s modernist home, an arrangement of overlapping boxes stacked around a garden courtyard.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
Top four of the slices with single layers of tomato and cucumber slices, overlapping slightly to ensure total coverage.
—Midwest Living, 15 May 2026
Adjective
There were four short docs released under the SNL50 banner, plus Questlove’s Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music and Brent Hodge’s Downey Wrote That, all on Peacock and boasting myriad overlapping talking heads, filming locations and generally celebratory approaches to the beloved sketch show.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
In the past couple years, AI has permeated the music industry in several overlapping but distinct ways.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Mar. 2026
That approach breaks down as complexity increases, and women’s financial lives often involve more overlapping roles and decision-makers.
—Dan Cavanaugh, Forbes.com, 13 Mar. 2026
Its dealers also have non-overlapping territories, which reduces competition, according to the complaints.
—Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Verb
As her life begins overlapping with the events of the film, she’s confronted with her own degenerate desires, as the Nazis would call them.
—Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
Fields emphasized that Saratoga and Los Gatos share many similarities and overlapping jurisdictions, such as the school district.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
The reserve manager, the issuer, and the settlement chain are now connected through overlapping commercial interests.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
The patterns bear the hallmarks of overlapping portfolio-management strategies, often index-based and much of it likely automated, and all of it difficult to disentangle.
—Justina Lee, Fortune, 23 May 2026
Typically, the task force is made of 16 independent volunteer preventive medicine experts who serve four-year, overlapping terms.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
The restructuring will reduce overlapping roles in TurboTax and Credit Karma as the company integrates both into a single team.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
That drone touches down at the address of architect Otone Komoto (Haruka Ayase), who designed her family’s modernist home, an arrangement of overlapping boxes stacked around a garden courtyard.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
Top four of the slices with single layers of tomato and cucumber slices, overlapping slightly to ensure total coverage.
—Midwest Living, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlapping
Adjective
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Implementing a restrained and tonal palette allows the intersecting lines to feel soft rather than busy.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
25 May 2026
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When it was first released in December 1980, it was seen as too weird for kids and too naive for adults, but it has since been reconsidered as a unique snapshot of intersecting talents — a strange, wonderful, one-of-a-kind movie.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
Verb
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The results are somewhat ambiguous as to how much ice may lurk unseen beneath layers of overlying ice-sparse material.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
18 Mar. 2026
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However, those sea surface temperatures will be far warmer than the overlying air temperatures.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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What is the underlying logical argument for choosing philosophy?—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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What’s my underlying reason for performing the action.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
Verb
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The company’s massive collections of individual data and market-lapping algorithms means the company didn’t need to program to tastes, never mind build an audience.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
18 May 2026
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The neighborhood/area Facing the Arabian Sea, this resort is front and center to gentle breezes and lapping waves.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 May 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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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
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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
Adjective
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On curved surfaces, parallel trajectories intersect—liberation movements that appear separate on maps organized around Euroamerican centers were always convergent in Afro-Asian circuits.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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This one being of post-war emancipation, when the convergent forces of wanting to achieve a sun tan and wanting to show some skin became newly acceptable among socially progressive young people.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
28 Dec. 2025
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“Overlapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlapping. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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