as in intersecting
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as in overlying
to lie over parts of one another
the brochures on the display table should overlap but not so much that the titles are obscured
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Adjective
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Last month, Texas announced the outbreak’s first death, a school-age child who was not vaccinated and had no underlying conditions.—
Neha Mukherjee,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025 -
This multi-faceted approach addresses both immediate needs and underlying causes of homelessness.—
Courier-News,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Tracking shots through vast mansions, majestic overhead shots of the stag hunt and water lapping at the camera lens as a French galley slowly sinks into the ocean serve to immerse the audience in the film’s 19th century European world.—
Scott Phillips,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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Tracking shots through vast mansions, majestic overhead shots of the stag hunt and water lapping at the camera lens as a French galley slowly sinks into the ocean serve to immerse the audience in the film’s 19th century European world.—
Scott Phillips,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Again, the superposed vector can be decomposed into its constituents.—
Anil Ananthaswamy,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Apr. 2023
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Like entanglement, the superposed states essential to its power are fragile, collapsing when measured or otherwise perturbed by the outside world.—
Gabriel Popkin,
Science | AAAS,
3 June 2021
Adjective
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The two tracks seen in the latest satellite images run at convergent angles, matching the general configuration of American supercarriers that have four electromagnetic catapults — two running parallel on the bow, and two on the waist, the analysts concluded.—
Matthew Bodner,
NBC News,
2 Mar. 2025
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The formation of the Cascade Range was primarily driven by the interaction of tectonic plates along the western edge of North America, with the small Juan de Fuca Plate being pushed beneath the larger North American Plate at a convergent plate boundary known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone.—
John Mac Ghlionn,
Newsweek,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Overlapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlapping. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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