overlying

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Overlying the image of Vermeer’s painting in my mind, I was fairly convinced that this could be the place.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2016

Overlying it all is the irony at the core of so many apocalyptic fictions: that self-destruction is an immutable part of the human condition.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2014

Overlying the Devonian formation is the great and important series of the Carboniferous Rocks, so called because workable beds of coal are more commonly and more largely developed in this formation than in any other.

From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne

Overlying the thin cell-wall proper, on the outside, is a thin gelatinous layer, a product of alteration of the outermost lamellæ of the former.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

Overlying these more ancient rocks are limestones with Rhaetic and Liassic fossils, occurring in small patches at Oletta, Morosaglia, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various