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Example Sentences

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It then overlaid a valuation screen on its score card, and came up with four names.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Scientists at paint manufacturer PPG built a database containing the properties of all of their products, overlaid with the laws of chemistry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026

The GPS showed him ground coordinates, but there was no overlaid image—no moving dot or icon—that showed where he was in relation to those coordinates.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2025

Thousands of bright stars, shown in red and blue, are overlaid on Gaia's detailed map of the Milky Way.

From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 2025

But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell