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overlap

[oh-ver-lap, oh-ver-lap] / ˌoʊ vərˈlæp, ˈoʊ vərˌlæp /


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Only 8% of the Valkyries’ season-ticket holders overlap with the Warriors, Smith says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Protests have also been taking place in Italy, Belgium, Spain and Portugal over different issues, yet with some overlap on inflation and education problems.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

“It’s not a permanent opposition,” he says, “There’s enough overlap already that we might see a staffer class that starts in DSA and is willing to entertain joining MYD.”

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Plenty of bees, plenty of bonnets — though, thankfully for the women, no overlap between the two.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Let the circular edge of the scales overlap the previous row, so none of the toilet paper roll shows through.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

When store managers who work in close proximity—say, at the Chicago and Wilmette locations—go on their quarterly buying trips to Paris, they keep an eye on whether the inventory they choose overlaps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

They say elephants destroy crops and infrastructure and pose a danger to people, particularly as their range increasingly overlaps with farms and settlements.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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

To see how their experience overlaps with my own and how it differs.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Their diets therefore overlapped with those of the human population.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The roles overlapped, but Robb and the mayor’s office insisted there was a firewall between Robb and the mayor regarding the Lineage fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

The tertulias at Alemana became the space where artists, journalists, and drunks overlapped freely.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

That event stretched into the early morning hours and overlapped with frantic negotiations to reach a deal with Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

We just put our hands in the dirt in front of us so our fingers overlapped like box flaps and made a pact.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

The new wing’s irregular, mysterious form and overlapping stainless-steel panels catch unique swathes of glowing sunlight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

This suggests that the two compounds produce overlapping subjective effects, at least in mice.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Between 2020 and 2023 Chowdhury had eight overlapping public sector jobs.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Israel’s Arab citizens are a patchwork of sometimes overlapping identities, with varying degrees of integration into Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

He visits the fortune-teller, who does not recognize him but lays his future out in polite rows of cards, though she admits that bits of it are overlapping and confusing.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern


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