overlap

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The firm sees a significant overlap with traditional semiconductor manufacturing, potentially presenting a long-term revenue opportunity for companies like ASML, Applied Materials, and Lam Research.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

"That creates regions of overlap, and that overlap has enough information to use an algorithm to iteratively reconstruct three-dimensional information about the object and the electron wave function."

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

With many entities involved in the Iran oil trade already blacklisted by the U.S.—including ships, ports and refineries—a parallel system has developed with little overlap with China’s sanctions-compliant oil market.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

That’s an outrageous proposition given the considerable overlap between those two groups in Louisiana.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026

They are happy and sweet, funny and warm. —and stick them on the wall, where they overlap with others, a combination of colors and shapes and moods.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven