superimpose
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It is premature to entirely superimpose Tesla’s trading patterns on SpaceX, but that is exactly what many seasoned investors are referencing as the SpaceX options market develops.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
The agency “did not want to intervene and superimpose last-minute, unvetted judgment into the process, as this could have been perceived as manipulating the data,” it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
She could be sweet, evil, overbearing, put-upon, thoughtful, impulsive, girlish, vulnerable or manipulative and superimpose selected qualities for extra complexity, always with a compressed energy, obvious or veiled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024
"Then we ask: Are there perturbations, or tiny changes in the flow of plasma, that we could superimpose on top of this average structure, that might grow to cause the sun's magnetic field?"
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
Very early, however, the gringo church in our neighborhood began to superimpose itself on our family life.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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The most elucidating superimposes a Pietà by Anne-Louis Girodet, David’s little-known pupil, over David’s “Marat.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
A $25 coffee cup for sale on the site features his mugshot and his inmate number: P01135809, another superimposes his mugshot over a list of the criminal charges he now faces in four separate cases.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
Online platforms have their own visual style — a filter that superimposes dog ears onto a person’s face wouldn’t be out of place — that doesn’t always translate to film to television.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
In “Always Crashing in the Same Car,” he superimposes the territory of success onto a map of Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
We like to feel that it superimposes the one that makes all transcendentalism but an intellectual state, based on the theory of innate ideas, the reality of thought and the necessity of its freedom.
From Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives
The team has seen so many certificates that it knows what to look for: fonts; inconsistent margins; the right official’s signature; a superimposed name of a student.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
A flash of superimposed text identifies them as “*Very certified*, extremely serious ballet experts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed on their mirror images, like left and right hands.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026
East Londonderry MLA Hunter was targeted in a deepfake video four years ago, when her face was digitally superimposed on to the face of another person.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
The words are superimposed on a cascade of banned books, dangerous books.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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"Others appear to be an image manipulated manually, often by superimposing indicators of damage or another change on a satellite image that had no such details to begin with," he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026
Wilson, whom the role fits so well he might have been measured for it, has a gift for playing eccentric regular guys and adolescent adults, and mixing, almost superimposing, sadness and happiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
Hence, Shirley’s Central American vacation video generated many versions of a meme superimposing his image on stills from the show’s prison arc.
From Salon ● May 7, 2025
Murnau pioneered some early special effects, including superimposing the image of Nosferatu on to a ship to create a frightening ghostly glow, Eggers goes for an earthy take, grounded in history and reality.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
He began with a shadow, then a touch, superimposing tone upon tone, modelling his paint somewhat like Monticelli, but without a hint of that artist's lyricism.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
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