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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This symptom can look slightly different for each person and vary based on the underlying cause.—
Cristina Mutchler,
Health,
18 Jan. 2025 -
Importantly, because many of these symptoms could be the result of another underlying condition, hypothyroidism is primarily identified through laboratory testing.—
Caroline C. Boyle,
USA TODAY,
17 Jan. 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 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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So convergent function is associated with convergent disorders.—
Janna Levin,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Nov. 2024
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“Overlapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlapping. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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