overlap
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Paralleling the pair’s different formations and aesthetic willfulness, the exhibition emphasizes points of overlap and rejection, sympathy and refusal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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
Two hurricanes churning in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico are sending high surf toward Southern California that will overlap with unusually high tides, bringing hazards for beachgoers and possible coastal flooding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Generally there is a significant overlap between the players identified by data and the ones already on scouts' radar.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Usually there were so many calls at the stroke of six-thirty that the overlap would send half of them straight to voicemail.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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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
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
Zooid’s history overlaps that of Mr. Threadgill’s trio with Messrs. Iyer and Prieto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
I draw another circle that overlaps my family and I write Ben, Sabeen, me.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Some vocational qualifications that overlapped with T-levels have had funding withdrawn, while others continue to be funded following a government review.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
Paxson is the longest-serving Ivy League president, and her tenure has overlapped with one of higher education’s most volatile periods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The tertulias at Alemana became the space where artists, journalists, and drunks overlapped freely.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
The team also examined whether the diets of more common fungi-eating mammals overlapped with the Gilbert's potoroo.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026
This task would belong to a group of composers whose lives overlapped and found focus within the walls of one great city: Vienna.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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It describes several overlapping anxieties about modern restaurant food, but its prehistory belongs, at least partly, to the ghost kitchen.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
The findings may help explain why something as different as a viral infection or psychological trauma can eventually produce overlapping symptoms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The companies would also have to sort through overlapping bureaus, talent contracts and questions over how much of their editorial operations could be shared while maintaining the distinct identities of the two news outlets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Xi did not reply in kind but rather stressed their two countries’ overlapping “interests.”
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
Each of the four singing parts had its own duration-value sequence that started and ended at a different point, creating an overlapping lattice of notes of different lengths.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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