as in overlies
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 overlaps
And as more filmmakers do this together, those overlaps form ecosystems of their own.
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Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 29 Dec. 2025
The Emergency Room of the hospital overlaps with this deepest flooding area, but it is also raised slightly.
—Carol Thompson, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
The motion created from a single image is excellent—that one small shard that overlaps with the hand is the best part.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
This happens during a fall calendar that overlaps on high school recruiting, the transfer portal window, the playoffs, and then school itself.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Dec. 2025
Huang’s base overlaps with the city’s tenant movement and younger progressives aligned with groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America.
—Teresa Liu, Daily News, 18 Nov. 2025
According to Frost & Sullivan, some 77 percent of Laopu’s clientele overlaps with Western luxury brands.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 14 Nov. 2025
The Ceballos empire overlaps with another intriguing figure in the murky world of Latin American finance, Diego Marynburg.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
But partisan gerrymandering sometimes overlaps with racial gerrymandering.
—NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 29 Dec. 2025
The Emergency Room of the hospital overlaps with this deepest flooding area, but it is also raised slightly.
—Carol Thompson, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
The motion created from a single image is excellent—that one small shard that overlaps with the hand is the best part.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
This happens during a fall calendar that overlaps on high school recruiting, the transfer portal window, the playoffs, and then school itself.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Dec. 2025
Huang’s base overlaps with the city’s tenant movement and younger progressives aligned with groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America.
—Teresa Liu, Daily News, 18 Nov. 2025
According to Frost & Sullivan, some 77 percent of Laopu’s clientele overlaps with Western luxury brands.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 14 Nov. 2025
The Ceballos empire overlaps with another intriguing figure in the murky world of Latin American finance, Diego Marynburg.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
But partisan gerrymandering sometimes overlaps with racial gerrymandering.
—NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlaps
laps
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The Hollywood Broadwalk provides the ocean on one side and breakfast on the other; the Palm Beach Lake Trail allows for a look into the backyards of the one-percenters, while the water laps up on the other side.—
Eric Barton,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
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For many years, Jones ran laps around the Dean Spanoses of the NFL.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Dec. 2025
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“Overlaps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlaps. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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