shingling 1 of 2

noun

as in overlap

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shingling

2 of 2

verb

present participle of shingle
as in overlapping

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  1. overlap
  2. overlapping
  3. imbrication
  4. lapping
Noun
  • The overlap effectively turned one of the summer’s biggest movies, The Odyssey, into an unexpected promotion for another.
    — David Deal, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Policy overlap Federal policies enacted in 2022 aimed to steer clean-energy investments toward communities impacted by coal plant closures, yet data centers are inheriting these sites instead.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of overlap
Verb
  • 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
Noun
  • Art’s imbrication in networks of money and power is hardly a contemporary phenomenon.
    — Rachel Wetzler, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2018
Definition of imbrication
Noun
  • The Wave percale sheets are guaranteed to lull you to sleep, like you’re being rocked by the gentle lapping of the ocean.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 13 July 2026
  • From my perch on a sun lounger, Friendship Bay stretches out below me – the curve of the powdery sand beach, the impossible blue of the sea and the calming lapping of the waves against the shore.
    — Rebekah Evans, TheWeek, 5 Feb. 2026
Definition of lapping
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