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overlap

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


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"It makes sense -- they're mammals, and there's about an 80% overlap between their genes and ours."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Customer overlap between Mytheresa and Net-a-Porter and Mr. Porter is just 12%, and drops to roughly 3% for the off-price platform Yoox.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

But at least in this novel, the yarns overlap without tangling.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

“Key questions would be on product or merchant overlap, plus how the Instacart brand integrates into the broader acquirer’s brand,” the Wedbush analysts said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

What’s more, the overlap of notes belonging to closely related keys made moving from one key to another easy.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Harry Styles’s current Madison Square Garden residency overlaps with Halloween, or “Harryween,” at which fans are encouraged to go all out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

“Research often overlaps in ways nobody expects,” Dr. Achebe said.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Paxson is the longest-serving Ivy League president, and her tenure has overlapped with one of higher education’s most volatile periods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

The tertulias at Alemana became the space where artists, journalists, and drunks overlapped freely.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

The problem was that the Rosenwald overlapped with the great Hastings Christmas Congress in England, the annual international tournament that, over the years, had seen some of the greatest chess legends capture first prize.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Early on as a council member, Raman told me she was sorting out the fragmented response to homelessness, having identified overlapping services, a lack of accountability, and broken lines of communication and coordination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

The experiments suggested that overlapping memory representations allowed the brain to retrieve information about previous threats more rapidly.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Carvão said the web of overlapping investments increases the risk of contagion if a weaker company such as CoreWeave runs into trouble.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The prosecution alleges Chowdhury managed to keep his overlapping jobs secret because he worked entirely remotely.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

For a moment she looks at him expectantly, then smiles, revealing two front teeth that are slightly overlapping.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri


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