Thesaurus results for OVERLYING

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as in overlaying

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verb

present participle of overlie

as in overlapping

to lie over parts of one another the puzzle pieces overlay one another in complete disarray on the floor

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as in coating

to form a layer over there will be freezing rain tonight, so we can expect to find a thick layer of ice overlying the car windshield in the morning

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Any longer may damage your overlying skin and even give you frostbite. — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 The local agricultural cooperative now struggles given the absence of irrigated agriculture in that area overlying the Ogallala. — Allen Best, Denver Post, 14 June 2026 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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The reserve sits in both Canada and the United States, and the overlapping jurisdictions can make smuggling easier, Maheu said.

— Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026
In regions such as Indonesia, a surge in basketball viewership is overlapping with a rise in mobile-first digital investment platform adoption.

— Agung Dwi Sandi, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of overlapping

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But soon after a contractor completed work on a protective blue liner, and the pool was refilled, there were reports of coating floating at the surface.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026
May 12, 2026 – After additional rain delays on May 10 - 11, coating product spraying continues.

— Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026

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Peter van Duijvendijk is a flood defense manager at the Schieland en de Krimpenerwaard water corporation, one of 21 such organizations covering the Netherlands that are responsible for issues including flood control.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
That left those covered by Obamacare increasingly facing difficult choices of sucking up extra expenses — while also covering the basics of life, such as rent and food costs — or even forgoing coverage altogether.

— Nick Thomas, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of covering

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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 Modrić and Haaland’s cases, some do this by overlaying bows and hearts on their images.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026

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