overlapping

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Supporters of the overhaul argue that the previous system contained an excessive number of overlapping or rarely used categories, which created administrative inefficiencies without significantly improving religious accommodation or support.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

The company also showed off a new Audi, the E7X, with the brand spelled out on the hood rather than represented by the usual four overlapping rings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The restructuring will reduce overlapping roles in TurboTax and Credit Karma as the company integrates both into a single team.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

Instead, early human evolution looks more like a landscape filled with overlapping experiments, some of which led nowhere, while one eventually led to us.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

His tears were a mixture of anger, forgiveness, anguish, and exultation, the emotions overlapping and bleeding into one another, so that he was unable to separate them.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson