- present participle of overlap.
overlapping
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The prosecution alleges Chowdhury managed to keep his overlapping jobs secret because he worked entirely remotely.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Located near Managua, Nicaragua's capital, Masaya is a geologically complex volcano featuring multiple overlapping craters and calderas.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Israel’s Arab citizens are a patchwork of sometimes overlapping identities, with varying degrees of integration into Israel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Lee and his colleagues realized that the wake from a single quark would be much easier to identify if there were no second quark creating an overlapping disturbance.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
In my mind, I see the overlapping circles on the whiteboard.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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