overlap
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He said there was enough overlap between customers that their data could feed into a robust loyalty program.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The two movements overlap heavily in membership and ideas, sharing an emphasis on reasoning through evidence and probabilities, and a conviction that preventing human extinction should be a top priority.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
That press, led by Malard, has moved higher up and teams have struggled to break through, while full-back Ellie Carpenter continues to overlap dangerously.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
The researchers found that the two populations remain separate and do not overlap, even at the earliest stages they examined.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
The passage also reminds us of the overlap in techniques for writing fiction and nonfiction.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Women showed their sharpest rise between ages 40 and 60, a period that broadly overlaps with the menopausal transition.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The delivery of mobile infrastructure projects often overlaps with devolved powers, such as planning.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Milwaukee’s festival calendar stretches well beyond these two, so if your visit overlaps with one, it’s worth checking the city’s full schedule before you arrive.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
There have been mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, overlaps, layoffs, and quote-unquote efficiencies all along the way.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Classic style overlaps with plain and practical styles.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Some vocational qualifications that overlapped with T-levels have had funding withdrawn, while others continue to be funded following a government review.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The period in which respondents were surveyed overlapped with the tentative ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and the end of the agreement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The tertulias at Alemana became the space where artists, journalists, and drunks overlapped freely.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
Mentioning that his faith was something that many viewers connected with, she asked him if his faith and comedy overlapped.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Silently, the emissary and the soldiers watched the paper lift higher and higher in the night sky, until it overlapped the moon and disappeared.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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The solar cells are cut into narrow strips, layered like overlapping shingles, and connected to each other using electrically conductive adhesive, rather than metal wires.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Lee and his colleagues realized that the wake from a single quark would be much easier to identify if there were no second quark creating an overlapping disturbance.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
It is important to realize the fluidity of the region now: These new conjunctions are flexible and overlapping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Nigerian models donned outfits of seemingly impossible amounts of fabric folded and moulded into massive silhouettes, or overlapping in shingled, feather-like patterns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
By juxtaposing the pieces of paper against each other and overlapping one color with another, one can almost produce every shade of color.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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