as in lapping
a partial covering of one thing by an adjoining member
the orthodontist will try to fix that overlap of two of your upper incisors
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as in to overlie
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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Recent Examples of overlap
Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Both holding the show together and offering hope that The Paper might eventually go from good to great is the cast which, like The Office, features several overlaps with the writing staff, an asset for efficiently targeting performing strengths.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
The book functions as a set of nesting dolls, offering stories embedded in stories, a series of overlapping detours and evasions that ultimately coalesce as a vivid and coherent whole.
—Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The overlap between devoted Monopoly heads and Wicked stans is, well, two separate circles, orbiting each other but never meeting in the middle.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Both holding the show together and offering hope that The Paper might eventually go from good to great is the cast which, like The Office, features several overlaps with the writing staff, an asset for efficiently targeting performing strengths.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
And adding Peacock to Fubo isn’t that painful, considering NBC’s games don’t overlap with other contests.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
The book functions as a set of nesting dolls, offering stories embedded in stories, a series of overlapping detours and evasions that ultimately coalesce as a vivid and coherent whole.
—Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlap
Verb
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Earth’s substantial atmosphere and geomagnetic field block most (but not all) of this bombardment, and the sunless interiors of worlds without these properties still get protection from overlying material.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
17 Aug. 2025
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This upward surge of water fractured the overlying ice sheet, creating new channels for the water to escape.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
31 July 2025
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High walls ran between the dusty road and the hillside, and on the other side the lake sparkled and lapped.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Sep. 2025
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Celestún sits along white-sand shores where crystalline waves lap gently, the ultimate antithesis to see-and-be-seen spots on the Yucatán Peninsula's other coast.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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Real-time video feeds overlay critical data, including vehicle status, ammunition levels, and targeting information.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
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Other new features include Luma Key, a filter video based on brightness values that removes black backgrounds from input sources and is suitable for overlaying lower thirds, titles, logos and animations.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Overlap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlap. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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