overlap
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Robinson Worldwide executives pushed back on analyst concerns that its acquisition of rival freight broker RXO could create operational overlap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But at least in this novel, the yarns overlap without tangling.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
Protests have also been taking place in Italy, Belgium, Spain and Portugal over different issues, yet with some overlap on inflation and education problems.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Doncic’s dueling personalities — the charismatic showman on the court and the reserved personality off it — overlap in his generosity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Some of the tunnels overlap, and at one point they’re above, beside, and below us.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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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
There have been mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, overlaps, layoffs, and quote-unquote efficiencies all along the way.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Thus according to the common-sense view the science of extraterrestrial beings, if they exist and if they are intelligent, must, where it overlaps with our science, agree with it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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We positioned the airline where we overlapped on about 100 routes, that both Frontier and Spirit operated on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Some vocational qualifications that overlapped with T-levels have had funding withdrawn, while others continue to be funded following a government review.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
The roles overlapped, but Robb and the mayor’s office insisted there was a firewall between Robb and the mayor regarding the Lineage fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
At this sea level "sweet spot," low-oxygen waters overlapped with organic-rich continental shelf sediments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
They calculate the many months that they were in that distant city together, on trips that had overlapped by weeks and once by months, unaware of each other’s presence.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Too many overlapping yarns in a movie make for a convoluted final product, a big clump of colorful material that’s too dense to pry apart to see the substance lurking below.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
Between 2020 and 2023 Chowdhury had eight overlapping public sector jobs.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Israel’s Arab citizens are a patchwork of sometimes overlapping identities, with varying degrees of integration into Israel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Located near Managua, Nicaragua's capital, Masaya is a geologically complex volcano featuring multiple overlapping craters and calderas.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 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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