overlapping

Example Sentences

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"When we have a problem, multiple people with overlapping skills can work on it."

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Instead, early human evolution looks more like a landscape filled with overlapping experiments, some of which led nowhere, while one eventually led to us.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

He wants to conduct a number of mergers: the mainstream television station France 2 with the less-watched France 5; the two news channels France 24 and France Info; and overlapping local radio and television networks.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

While GameStop and eBay have overlapping business segments in games, toys and collectibles, Devnani pointed out that eBay is a far bigger and more diversified business.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

His tears were a mixture of anger, forgiveness, anguish, and exultation, the emotions overlapping and bleeding into one another, so that he was unable to separate them.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson