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overlay

[oh-ver-ley, oh-ver-ley] / ˌoʊ vərˈleɪ, ˈoʊ vərˌleɪ /


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A series of colorful circles overlay Lee’s ink sketches.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2026

Jefferies had already updated estimates to reflect this scenario, and the investment bank’s analysts say Westpac’s new portfolio overlay for energy intensive sectors supports this expectation.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

But a digital forensics expert told AFP's fact-checkers that the anomaly was the result of a failed text overlay by a news station that had syndicated the official feed.

From Barron's Apr. 11, 2026

"I noticed that the brick was a very pink-cast brick, and it had a little bit of a charcoal overlay on it. It was a modular eight-inch brick and it was square-edged," he says.

From BBC Feb. 16, 2026

He tried to forget those horrible images, overlay them with other ones.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

Augmented reality is a technology that overlays digital displays against real-world surroundings.

From MarketWatch Jun. 17, 2026

The imagery is convincingly mirror-like—reversed—with eye-like focal length, decent resolution and lowlight sensitivity, making it easy to trust when judging distances, with the help of graphical overlays and warning tones.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 25, 2026

As team principal Andrea Stella put it: "When we look at the GPS overlays, we see that Mercedes is faster in some of the corners."

From BBC Mar. 10, 2026

The newest tax strategies for investors are actively managed long/short SMAs and options overlays.

From Barron's Nov. 25, 2025

Over the speakers, with no virtual overlays, she switches to speaking English.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Text reading “Polymarket funds my life” overlaid another video of her dancing on a beach by the Golden Gate Bridge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

Three hours before the match, AFP spoke with several protesters who held tickets and wore T-shirts printed with that pre-revolution flag -- horizontal green, white and red stripes overlaid with a sun and a lion.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

Each has an episode named for him — as with “Adolescence” it’s a four-part show — the overlaid shifting focus fitting quite well into the novel’s chronology.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2026

An Instagram post on March 7 from Dubai’s official tourism account featured slick visuals of the emirate’s landmark high-rise buildings overlaid with a catchy pop-soundtrack that declares: “Dubai is still the safest place on Earth.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

“Much of Africa was being overlaid by European customs. It seemed—then—that our culture would be destroyed by the outside world. And so Resthaven was created.”

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

“Many Americans have a very low level of financial resilience,” read text overlaying one such video from state media.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 19, 2026

Augmented reality involves overlaying digital objects onto a person’s view of the physical world, allowing people to wear virtual dog ears on their faces and catch virtual Pokémon.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2025

This project invites viewers to consider what it means for a country to grow, and the advantages and disadvantages linked to that growth, by overlaying archival photographs from the 1940s-60s within current scenes.

From BBC Apr. 19, 2025

A material like amber is formed over tens of thousands of years, when the heat and pressure of overlaying sediment causes a complex chemical reaction resulting in the resin-like stone.

From Slate Apr. 27, 2024

He spoke like somebody on television, his sharp, quick New York accent overlaying a slight Southern drawl.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals




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