overlap
Example Sentences
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To buy the company, Paramount is taking on $79 billion in debt, a massive amount that many in Hollywood expect will result in steep layoffs targeting overlapping functions and departments across the two companies.
From Los Angeles Times
Greer said it is too early to say how any new penalties from the latest probes will overlap with the sectoral duties.
From Barron's
Similarly, a rare 2019 overlap of the Hindenburg Omen and equally ominous-sounding Titanic Indicator might have been a sign of trouble.
When light passed through two narrow openings, the resulting pattern resembled the overlapping ripples produced when two stones fall into water, creating an "interference" pattern.
From Science Daily
But Iran’s state apparatus was built to outlive individual leaders, thanks to layered and overlapping centers of political and military power.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
