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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 app’s remix feature allowed users to superimpose the likeness of their friends or celebrities into existing AI-generated video or create brand new ones.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 24, 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

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

From BBC Apr. 21, 2025

Very early, however, the gringo church in our neighborhood began to superimpose itself on our family life.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

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

Gretchen Bender superimposes potent phrases or ideas onto television screens blaring out the usual stream of nonsense, drivel and enticement.

From Washington Post Apr. 6, 2023

“Father Comes Home From the Wars” superimposes Homer’s “Odyssey” on the tale of a Black man who buys his freedom by fighting for the Confederacy.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2023

The mortal Don Quixote, in dying, realized his own comicness and bewept his sins; but the immortal Quixote, realizing his own comicness, superimposes himself upon it and triumphs over it without renouncing it.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

Much like a person's left and right hands mirror one another but cannot be perfectly superimposed, many biological structures have a preferred orientation.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

A flash of superimposed text identifies them as “*Very certified*, extremely serious ballet experts.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2026

Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed on their mirror images, like left and right hands.

From Science Daily Mar. 21, 2026

The posters bear the message "we belong together" superimposed over a photo of a stadium of fans, taken from the last date of Styles' 2022-23 world tour.

From BBC Jan. 13, 2026

In spite of time, of the superimposed periods of mourning, and her accumulated afflictions, Úrsula resisted growing old.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"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

As such, elements capable of generating, propagating, superimposing, and measuring spin waves are being competitively developed worldwide.

From Science Daily Feb. 1, 2024

By superimposing a map of China over that of the United States you may see that China more than covers this country; China is considerably larger than the United States.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923 by Northern Nut Growers Association




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