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overlap

[oh-ver-lap, oh-ver-lap] / ˌoʊ vərˈlæp, ˈoʊ vərˌlæp /


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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

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

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Some vocational qualifications that overlapped with T-levels have had funding withdrawn, while others continue to be funded following a government review.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

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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