overlapped

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Barack Obama, whose presidency overlapped with Mueller's tenure as FBI chief for five years, hailed him as "one of the most respected public servants of our time."

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

Ed Slater, whose career at Leicester overlapped with Moody's by a season, retired from playing in July 2022 after tests showed he too had MND.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

She has also argued that Egyptian-owned airplanes that overlapped with Erika’s locations at times had connections to Israel, pointing to Egypt’s involvement in the plot.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

Matsushita students lived in dormitories and woke at 6 a.m. to clean the school top to bottom, said Hiroto Abe, who attended the institute and overlapped with Takaichi in the early 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Perhaps as a result, the most persuasive scientific critiques on Clovis initially came from fields that overlapped archaeology, but were mainly outside of it: linguistics, molecular biology, and geology.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann