overlie

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The freeways are the concrete net that overlies it all, but only real Angelenos enter their mesmerizing alpha state.

From Los Angeles Times

The protein it encodes resides in the space between the retina and the retinal pigment epithelium, a thin layer of cells overlying the retina.

From Science Magazine

Friction due to the enormous pressure from the weight of all the overlying rock holds these cracks together.

From Scientific American

It’s thought that Europa’s subsurface ocean, like that within Saturn’s moon Enceladus, occasionally spurts out plumes of liquid water from cracks in the overlying ice.

From Scientific American

In the Arctic, the pole is covered by an ocean overlain by ice that spreads outward, but soon encounters and freezes onto land masses including the coasts of Alaska, Russia and Canada’s Arctic Islands.

From Washington Post