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overlap

[oh-ver-lap, oh-ver-lap] / ˌoʊ vərˈlæp, ˈoʊ vərˌlæp /


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Meketa’s Samson cautioned that currently late-stage funds tend to have a lot of overlap in their portfolios.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

But Alaska and Hawaiian had limited route overlap, and in the place where they did overlap — West Coast to Hawaii flights — Alaska had lower fares, Trent said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

The overlap between those markets is where the investment opportunity becomes genuinely interesting.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

One likely reason growth trounced value in most years since the financial crisis is that it had the highest portfolio overlap with a factor better than either one—quality plus free cash flow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

By noting which craters overlap which and other signs of lunar stratigraphy, we can reconstruct the sequence of impact and flooding events of which the production of crater Bruno is perhaps the most recent example.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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