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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

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

The Ongeluk volcanic series, consisting of lavas and breccias, conformably overlies the Griquatown series; while the grits, quartzites and conglomerates of the Matsap series rest on them with a great discordance.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

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

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

UBP cuts duration across all currencies, scales back its sterling duration overlay and reduces exposure to emerging-market local currency bonds, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

BBC Sport has seen a telemetry data overlay of a quick lap from Bahrain with last year's cars compared with one from this year.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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

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

The limestone area along the East Aspetuck is largely overlain by till, but here again the presence of rock in place shows that the valley has not been overdeepened.

From Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 30 by Ruth Sawyer-Harvey

When magma drains away from a reservoir, the overlying ground can sink.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

The overlying rock, sometimes clay or sandstone, will then suddenly collapse into the depression beneath - this is called a collapse sinkhole.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 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

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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