overlap

Example Sentences

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The way these pulses overlap and interfere depends on their phase, allowing different quantum states to be identified and measured.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

While most clubs have a player welfare system in place, there are no set standards for what the role should involve and there is often overlap with the work of agents and intermediaries.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Like Calpers, two other purchasers, Kuvare and the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, also had overlap.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

To remove the overlap of the S&P 500 Value and Growth Indexes, S&P Dow Jones Indices also maintains narrower ”pure” versions of each, which are rebalanced annually in December.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

We didn’t usually overlap shifts like this; I was used to coming home just as she got up to splash water on her face.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse