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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

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

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

To memorialize the South Asian indentured servants brought to Trinidad and Tobago, Renluka Maharaj superimposes a photo of a woman over a British emigration pass designed for Indian women.

From Washington Post Jun. 28, 2022

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

"Namjoon for Prime Minister," added a third, with a picture of RM superimposed on a British flag.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

These structures have a built-in twist, either left- or right-handed, that cannot be superimposed on its mirror image.

From Science Daily Apr. 19, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2026

Mercer, he reflected, isn’t a human being; he evidently is an archetypal entity from the stars, superimposed on our culture by a cosmic template.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

"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

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

The dynamic range of the camera is increased by superimposing different images or measurements -- in this case signals with different levels of amplification -- to create a data set.

From Science Daily Jan. 10, 2024

You will spoil the beauty you have by superimposing another; as if you make a statue of gold, or flute a jasper column, or bedeck a velvet cloak.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana




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