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as in overlying
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as in coating
to form a layer over
you should apply a coat of primer first, and then overlay it with two coats of paint
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as in overlapping
to lie over parts of one another
cedar shingles overlaying one another on the roof
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Recent Examples of overlaying
Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
Trying to tap the ice sheet, which covers 80 percent of Greenland, for minerals is unappealing, given that all the necessary supplies would need to be brought inland by helicopter and there are kilometers of ice overlaying parts of the rock.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
In Texas, overlaying precincts with current and proposed maps shows how elections could unfold.
—Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
The Quantum Internet will not replace the classical Internet but augment it, overlaying quantum signals with classical bits.
—Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
Podlesí is notorious for its boring atmosphere, overlaying everything like a thick blanket.
—Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
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
The pins appear to march through the entire valley, overlaying each other and clustering at the locations of ranches and farms.
—Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
At its core, Caption with Intention is a novel captioning design system which aims to significantly augment several critical points of failure within traditional captioning by overlaying animation, color and variable typography to bring the text to life.
—Gus Alexiou, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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As music played in the background, overlaying captions appeared on screen beside Bader, 30, who underwent bariatric surgery in December 2023.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
Trying to tap the ice sheet, which covers 80 percent of Greenland, for minerals is unappealing, given that all the necessary supplies would need to be brought inland by helicopter and there are kilometers of ice overlaying parts of the rock.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
In Texas, overlaying precincts with current and proposed maps shows how elections could unfold.
—Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
The Quantum Internet will not replace the classical Internet but augment it, overlaying quantum signals with classical bits.
—Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
Podlesí is notorious for its boring atmosphere, overlaying everything like a thick blanket.
—Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
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
The pins appear to march through the entire valley, overlaying each other and clustering at the locations of ranches and farms.
—Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
At its core, Caption with Intention is a novel captioning design system which aims to significantly augment several critical points of failure within traditional captioning by overlaying animation, color and variable typography to bring the text to life.
—Gus Alexiou, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlaying
Adjective
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The underlying facts of the case are still to be ruled on, but the partial ruling on Friday was a big win for immigration advocates who had been fighting to shut down the controversial site.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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The Kansas City Chiefs’ planned $3 billion stadium in Wyandotte County cleared a major hurdle on Friday, when the Kansas Legislature passed a bill creating a sports authority and renewing the underlying incentive program that will finance the megaproject.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The inspector noticed an expired permit on the wall, a slime coating on the ice chute of the ice machine and disposable cups stored on the floor.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Mar. 2026
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In 2018, the team made an important leap forward by using spray coating to create layers of chitin and cellulose nanomaterials.—
J. Carson Meredith,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2026
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Far from being a single unit, a family is a set of overlapping vectors, lines that cut across one another, making chaotic patterns, dense designs.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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That range spans about 370 parts-per-billion between the various estimates, with some overlapping with Fermilab’s experimental data and others, particularly from the older R-ratio methods, disagreeing with Fermilab’s data at greater than the 5-sigma threshold.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
19 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Combined, the payouts to the two Brooklyn exonerees — covering a collective 40-plus years behind bars — were less than what Chicago would end up paying for Sierra’s 22 years’ imprisonment.—
Joe Mahr,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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With the base loaded and one out, Los Alamitos popped up a bunt that third baseman Kimmie McDonnell snagged and alertly tossed to shortstop Mazzotti covering third base for an inning-ending double play.—
Dan Albano,
Oc Register,
29 Mar. 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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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
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“Overlaying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlaying. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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