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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

When a park ranger contacted Propeck, he denied he was the man in the video, saying he’d used artificial intelligence to superimpose his face onto the footage, the complaint states.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 5, 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

Very early, however, the gringo church in our neighborhood began to superimpose itself on our family life.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

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

Online platforms have their own visual style — a filter that superimposes dog ears onto a person’s face wouldn’t be out of place — that doesn’t always translate to film to television.

From Washington Post Sep. 2, 2021

In “Always Crashing in the Same Car,” he superimposes the territory of success onto a map of Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2021

Certainly, in the case of adults, an obstruction puts the individual "on his mettle", and superimposes the mastery motive upon whatever motive it may have been that originally prompted the action.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed on their mirror images, like left and right hands.

From Science Daily Mar. 21, 2026

Jurors cleared Barton, now of Widnes, Cheshire, over the commentary analogy with the Wests but ruled the superimposed image was grossly offensive.

From BBC Dec. 8, 2025

The East Londonderry MLA's face was digitally superimposed on to the face of another person.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2025

A unique, new line of MLB hats for fans displays a team’s uniform logo with the same team’s hat logo superimposed on top of it in the center.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 11, 2025

When Huxley told him that the photographer had superimposed an image on the plate, and it could not be real, Hensleigh did not believe him.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

"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

Murnau pioneered some early special effects, including superimposing the image of Nosferatu on to a ship to create a frightening ghostly glow, Eggers goes for an earthy take, grounded in history and reality.

From BBC Dec. 31, 2024

It may then be done by placing the writing to be forged upon a transparency over a strong light, and then superimposing the paper upon which the forgery is to be made.

From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Lavay, Jerome Buell




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