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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

Through a feature called “Cameos,” users can superimpose their face or a friend’s face into any existing video.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 26, 2025

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

From BBC Apr. 21, 2025

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

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

When Peter Parker designs his superhero suit in the first “Spider-Man,” Raimi superimposes sketchbook drawings over images of Peter brainstorming, in an effect reminiscent of the cutouts and rear projection in his superhero noir “Darkman.”

From New York Times May 12, 2022

In a video, Carolina Mayorga superimposes her pink-tinted performance over Armando López Bircann’s setting.

From Washington Post Nov. 17, 2021

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 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

On the other side is the influencer, known as FINNYZYY, with a girl's face and voice superimposed.

From BBC May 15, 2026

A flash of superimposed text identifies them as “*Very certified*, extremely serious ballet experts.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2026

All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

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 image became an instant meme with people superimposing the stallion into shots from “The Shining,” “Alien 3” and any other movie where this horse’s malevolent visage actually made sense.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 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 Jerome Buell Lavay




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