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overlie

[oh-ver-lahy] / ˌoʊ vərˈlaɪ /






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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

The freeways are the concrete net that overlies it all, but only real Angelenos enter their mesmerizing alpha state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 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

This overlies the remains of No. 3, at a level higher by about a metre, and the area of its cella alone contains the whole of the earlier shrines.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

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

The other is an overlay of orange and yellow splotches on the land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

“I just don’t think agentic AI overlay on going out, filling out a bunch of forms is really going to solve any consumer’s problems anytime soon,” he says on an analyst call.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 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

There are only a few to be seen from here, scattered dots representing the rest of the Milky Way, invisible without a virtual overlay.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

“This is why you have my support,” one commenter wrote when the video was later posted to Instagram with Gascón gesturing wildly at overlain text highlighting some of his campaign’s priorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

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

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

There was between this mother and daughter a continual undercurrent of possible antagonism, overlain and usually smothered out of sight by passionate attachment on both sides.

From Between Whiles by Helen Hunt Jackson

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

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

As a result, the top few inches of soil or rock heat up rapidly over the course of a day, and in turn warm the overlying air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2024

A wide residential and commercial block, known as "Region 9", is being cleared of several metres of overlying pumice and ash thrown out by Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 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


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