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noun

as in overlaying

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overspreading

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verb

present participle of overspread
1
as in coating
to form a layer over the butter should evenly overspread the baking pan

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2
as in overlapping
to lie over parts of one another autumn leaves overspreading one another on the lawn to form a colorful mosaic

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  1. coating
  2. overlapping
  3. covering
Verb
  • 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
Definition of coating
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  • What starts as a handful of essential SaaS tools can quietly expand into dozens of overlapping platforms, each promising greater efficiency while steadily eroding margins.
    — Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • At the Whitney Biennial, Carmen de Monteflores’s long-unseen shaped canvases of colorful overlapping figures hung alongside her daughter Andrea Fraser’s wax sculptures of sleeping toddlers.
    — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of overlapping
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  • Enterprise legal teams in 2026 routinely insist on data exit covering prompts, embeddings, and fine-tunes.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Conti recommends setting up a simple observation board made from cardboard and covering it with a white sheet.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of covering
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