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overlaid

[oh-ver-leyd] / ˌoʊ vərˈleɪd /




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Text reading “Polymarket funds my life” overlaid another video of her dancing on a beach by the Golden Gate Bridge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

Three hours before the match, AFP spoke with several protesters who held tickets and wore T-shirts printed with that pre-revolution flag -- horizontal green, white and red stripes overlaid with a sun and a lion.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

They overlaid effects onto their selfies, transforming their faces into cute dogs and even puking rainbows.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025

The GPS showed him ground coordinates, but there was no overlaid image—no moving dot or icon—that showed where he was in relation to those coordinates.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2025

The results are digitized so the specifics of Phineas's skull can be overlaid onto a three-dimensional computer image of a generic human skull.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman




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