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superimpose

[soo-per-im-pohz] / ˌsu pər ɪmˈpoʊz /
VERB
lay over something else
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It is premature to entirely superimpose Tesla’s trading patterns on SpaceX, but that is exactly what many seasoned investors are referencing as the SpaceX options market develops.

From Barron's Jun. 16, 2026

The agency “did not want to intervene and superimpose last-minute, unvetted judgment into the process, as this could have been perceived as manipulating the data,” it said.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 30, 2025

Users can then superimpose the digital images onto their physical surroundings using their device.

From BBC Apr. 21, 2025

She could be sweet, evil, overbearing, put-upon, thoughtful, impulsive, girlish, vulnerable or manipulative and superimpose selected qualities for extra complexity, always with a compressed energy, obvious or veiled.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 30, 2024

At the right altitude, he could almost superimpose the luminous map on his visor over the actual Dublin streets below him.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Kylian Mbappe has criticised a viral meme which superimposes his face on the body of a dictator, saying it shows "a lack of political and human awareness".

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

The most elucidating superimposes a Pietà by Anne-Louis Girodet, David’s little-known pupil, over David’s “Marat.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 2025

In the meantime, I have assembled a small library of eclipse books and magazines, including a road atlas that superimposes the 2024 path of totality onto a detailed map of the U.S.,

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2024

A $25 coffee cup for sale on the site features his mugshot and his inmate number: P01135809, another superimposes his mugshot over a list of the criminal charges he now faces in four separate cases.

From Washington Times Aug. 25, 2023

The mortal Don Quixote, in dying, realized his own comicness and bewept his sins; but the immortal Quixote, realizing his own comicness, superimposes himself upon it and triumphs over it without renouncing it.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

The majority of the film’s narrative is communicated through on-screen text — translations of archival material, superimposed in English over their original printed matter.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2026

The research team mapped where the 44,000 unsheltered people lived and superimposed those over maps of the theoretcial one-mile radius security zones.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

The team has seen so many certificates that it knows what to look for: fonts; inconsistent margins; the right official’s signature; a superimposed name of a student.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Much like a person's left and right hands mirror one another but cannot be perfectly superimposed, many biological structures have a preferred orientation.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

But superimposed over the ruins was another layer of reality - a spectral mirage of the palace as it must have appeared in its heyday.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Google has launched a new AI tool which allows people to create fake images by superimposing almost anything on top of its own widely-used satellite imagery.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

"Others appear to be an image manipulated manually, often by superimposing indicators of damage or another change on a satellite image that had no such details to begin with," he said.

From Barron's Mar. 9, 2026

That choice allowed star David Corenswet to react in real time to his filmed environment, rather than shooting him before a blue screen and later superimposing him over footage.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2025

Hence, Shirley’s Central American vacation video generated many versions of a meme superimposing his image on stills from the show's prison arc.

From Salon May 7, 2025

The principle of amalgamating the two laws and nationalities by superimposing the better consolidated Norman superstructure on the better consolidated English substructure, runs through the whole policy.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne




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