overlap
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Paralleling the pair’s different formations and aesthetic willfulness, the exhibition emphasizes points of overlap and rejection, sympathy and refusal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The two movements overlap heavily in membership and ideas, sharing an emphasis on reasoning through evidence and probabilities, and a conviction that preventing human extinction should be a top priority.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Generally there is a significant overlap between the players identified by data and the ones already on scouts' radar.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The researchers found that the two populations remain separate and do not overlap, even at the earliest stages they examined.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
The passage also reminds us of the overlap in techniques for writing fiction and nonfiction.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
The delivery of mobile infrastructure projects often overlaps with devolved powers, such as planning.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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
Notice that the pattern for minor scales overlaps the pattern for major scales.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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The period in which respondents were surveyed overlapped with the tentative ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and the end of the agreement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
At this sea level "sweet spot," low-oxygen waters overlapped with organic-rich continental shelf sediments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
The tertulias at Alemana became the space where artists, journalists, and drunks overlapped freely.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
During Trump's first term, the US president and former Brazilian president Bolsonaro enjoyed a friendly relationship when their presidencies overlapped, and the two had met at the White House in 2019.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
In Ged's eyes there was a dark vision that overlapped and veiled the grey sea and the grey sky, and the darkness grew, and the veil thickened.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Nigerian models donned outfits of seemingly impossible amounts of fabric folded and moulded into massive silhouettes, or overlapping in shingled, feather-like patterns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
It describes several overlapping anxieties about modern restaurant food, but its prehistory belongs, at least partly, to the ghost kitchen.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Xi did not reply in kind but rather stressed their two countries’ overlapping “interests.”
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026
Ellison has also promised $6 billion in synergies from the merger, which could come from consolidating tech operations at the streaming services and by eliminating overlapping jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
He visits the fortune-teller, who does not recognize him but lays his future out in polite rows of cards, though she admits that bits of it are overlapping and confusing.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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