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superimpose

[soo-per-im-pohz] / ˌsu pər ɪmˈpoʊz /
VERB
lay over something else
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It is premature to entirely superimpose Tesla’s trading patterns on SpaceX, but that is exactly what many seasoned investors are referencing as the SpaceX options market develops.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

The agency “did not want to intervene and superimpose last-minute, unvetted judgment into the process, as this could have been perceived as manipulating the data,” it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

Through a feature called “Cameos,” users can superimpose their face or a friend’s face into any existing video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025

Users can then superimpose the digital images onto their physical surroundings using their device.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025

At the right altitude, he could almost superimpose the luminous map on his visor over the actual Dublin streets below him.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Kylian Mbappe has criticised a viral meme which superimposes his face on the body of a dictator, saying it shows "a lack of political and human awareness".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The most elucidating superimposes a Pietà by Anne-Louis Girodet, David’s little-known pupil, over David’s “Marat.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

In the meantime, I have assembled a small library of eclipse books and magazines, including a road atlas that superimposes the 2024 path of totality onto a detailed map of the U.S.,

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

A $25 coffee cup for sale on the site features his mugshot and his inmate number: P01135809, another superimposes his mugshot over a list of the criminal charges he now faces in four separate cases.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Then the Apostle superimposes upon this another metaphor.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

Although they are mirror images of each other, a left hand cannot be perfectly superimposed on a right hand.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The majority of the film’s narrative is communicated through on-screen text — translations of archival material, superimposed in English over their original printed matter.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

The team has seen so many certificates that it knows what to look for: fonts; inconsistent margins; the right official’s signature; a superimposed name of a student.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

On the other side is the influencer, known as FINNYZYY, with a girl's face and voice superimposed.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

But superimposed over the ruins was another layer of reality - a spectral mirage of the palace as it must have appeared in its heyday.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

"Others appear to be an image manipulated manually, often by superimposing indicators of damage or another change on a satellite image that had no such details to begin with," he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026

Hence, Shirley’s Central American vacation video generated many versions of a meme superimposing his image on stills from the show's prison arc.

From Salon ● May 7, 2025

Murnau pioneered some early special effects, including superimposing the image of Nosferatu on to a ship to create a frightening ghostly glow, Eggers goes for an earthy take, grounded in history and reality.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024

The dynamic range of the camera is increased by superimposing different images or measurements -- in this case signals with different levels of amplification -- to create a data set.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2024

It has the vagueness of a photograph produced by superimposing many negatives of the same face one upon the other.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds


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