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“Indeed, with the discovery that both cartouches of Ay overlie original cartouches of Tutankhamun, we have the veritable smoking gun,” he said.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022

The researchers combined reams of geologic data from 2003 to 2017 to determine where U.S. forests and shrublands overlie bedrock that roots could feasibly reach.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 29, 2021

However, near the bottom horizontal strata overlie tilted strata.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

Schmidt calculates that these tumbled patches of ice probably overlie pockets of liquid water trapped in the shifting ice.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2014

High clouds temporarily overlie about a third of the GRS.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

A deep fracture in the Tibetan Plateau known as the Cona-Sangri rift overlies the tear—a tantalizing hint that the tumult in the Indian Plate’s underbelly might somehow ripple to the surface.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024

That’s a very specific cause of cardiac arrest that occurs when there is blunt force trauma to the heart, or the chest wall that overlies the heart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

So they wet the skin that overlies this big balloon of blood right behind their nostrils.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2023

When a strong jet streak overlies a developing low-pressure system, it creates a feedback pattern that makes warm air rise at an increasing rate.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 28, 2022

A veneer of affectation overlies a bulk of truth, with the evil consequence, if perceived, that the substance is estimated by the superficies, and the whole rejected.

From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

Other scammers take videos and photos from real practicing attorneys and overlay different audio to trick immigrants into sending them money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Reduction in provisioning was supported by reversal of management overlay that the company set aside to prepare for potential damage from Thailand’s southern flood disaster, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

But a digital forensics expert told AFP's fact-checkers that the anomaly was the result of a failed text overlay by a news station that had syndicated the official feed.

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

"I noticed that the brick was a very pink-cast brick, and it had a little bit of a charcoal overlay on it. It was a modular eight-inch brick and it was square-edged," he says.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

She flicked through the rack and pulled out a slipper dress with a chiffon overlay printed with a Qinghua pattern, the blue-white motif of Chinese porcelain.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

In many Baltic cemeteries horses were buried separately from humans, but there are numerous examples of horses with overlain human cremations.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024

In the Arctic, the pole is covered by an ocean overlain by ice that spreads outward, but soon encounters and freezes onto land masses including the coasts of Alaska, Russia and Canada’s Arctic Islands.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023

MTT’s was a series of overlain transparencies showing the electron shells of one of the higher elements, perhaps uranium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023

On Thursday, Weinstein lawyer Arthur Aidala walked in wearing a wild, light-colored suit with an overlain windowpane, plaid pattern.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2020

It will be seen that the surface of the quartzite is immediately overlain by conglomerate, but that the conglomerate near its top is younger than that near its base.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Wallace W. Atwood

National Fuel Gas owns roughly 1.2 million acres in the Appalachian Basin, with substantial mineral ownership overlying the Marcellus and Utica shales.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

“Very Delta” traverses time, bringing memories together, creating overlying queer maps that support one another’s experiences and add new pieces to an endless puzzle of connections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

This month, the researchers will return to Waesche, looking for more rocks that could confirm whether the loss of overlying ice caused Waesche to wake up.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024

It is this stray field which produces new magnetic microstructures in the overlying ferromagnetic layer: spins emanate radially from the structure centre, as in a radial vortex.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

I nodded, my fingers finding the bare skin of his forearms, tracing the muscles and overlying veins there.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken