overlap
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That overlap gives scientists an opportunity to examine how lifestyle and environment affect long-term health.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Some qualifications that overlap with newer technical qualifications, such as T-levels, have had funding withdrawn, while others have been retained.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Teledyne Chief Executive Robert Mehrabian said the companies serve similar customers with related technologies, though its products are uniquely complementary with minimal overlap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
But she also noted that there could be bigger retailers out there that have more overlap with the auction site.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
His work hours changed so that they would overlap with the working day in Japan.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
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“I think that’s the most common pitfall we see. You can get overlaps in exposures, or gaps in exposures, that you don’t realize that you have.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The salmonella outbreak overlaps with the nation’s largest-ever cyclospora outbreak, tied to shredded iceberg lettuce, that has sickened thousands of people over the past several weeks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
That marketing often overlaps with another popular selling point: the word “natural.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
However, the timing of the bombardment overlaps with a period of widespread cooling and major biological changes, raising the possibility that the impacts affected the planet's environment.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 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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Some vocational qualifications that overlapped with T-levels have had funding withdrawn, while others continue to be funded following a government review.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 tenure of Christina Paxson, the longest-serving Ivy League president, has overlapped with a volatile period in higher education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
The tertulias at Alemana became the space where artists, journalists, and drunks overlapped freely.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
We watched them in broadcast order, starting with The Original Series, though things got complicated after the fifth season of The Next Generation, since its sixth season overlapped Deep Space Nine.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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The charity Bipolar UK, external said because the two conditions have overlapping traits it is not uncommon for them to be misdiagnosed.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
One of the goals of the merger is to shave costs by consolidating overlapping business divisions and back-office functions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Instead, the findings suggest that very different experiences may sometimes engage overlapping brain processes associated with altered states of consciousness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
The antitrust risk would be acute in a takeover of Bristol-Myers Squibb given the substantial overlapping portfolios both companies maintain in oncology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
She lashed the reeds down and covered them with bundles of thatching grass, using many overlapping layers tied in place with mupfuti twine.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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