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overlap

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


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Shares of Snap surged in Wednesday premarket trading after the Snapchat parent said it would lay off 16% of its full-time employees in an effort to cut costs and reduce workforce overlap.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

But Alaska and Hawaiian had limited route overlap, and in the place where they did overlap — West Coast to Hawaii flights — Alaska had lower fares, Trent said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

Marie Byrd Land doesn’t overlap with the territorial claims of any other nation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

A significant subset of them are formulaic in style—expository, structured, smooth, coherent and impersonal, traits that overlap with AI-generated prose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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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