overlapped

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They said the department covered Duffy’s flights on trips that overlapped with official visits to air-traffic control facilities or assessing port infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

As these possible paths overlapped later in the experiment, they produced a detectable striped interference pattern that matched the predictions of quantum theory.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

War on Iran "overlapped significantly with the survey sample period," and comments on oil and gas spiked, she said.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Given government censorship and the cultural divisions among tech platforms, Chinese and American social media users never really overlapped to see each others’ regular routines and memes.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

In Ged's eyes there was a dark vision that overlapped and veiled the grey sea and the grey sky, and the darkness grew, and the veil thickened.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin