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The researchers combined reams of geologic data from 2003 to 2017 to determine where U.S. forests and shrublands overlie bedrock that roots could feasibly reach.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 29, 2021

However, near the bottom horizontal strata overlie tilted strata.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

Schmidt calculates that these tumbled patches of ice probably overlie pockets of liquid water trapped in the shifting ice.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2014

These geologic units overlie the craton we want to study and so don’t tell us very much.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2011

High clouds temporarily overlie about a third of the GRS.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

A deep fracture in the Tibetan Plateau known as the Cona-Sangri rift overlies the tear—a tantalizing hint that the tumult in the Indian Plate’s underbelly might somehow ripple to the surface.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024

That’s a very specific cause of cardiac arrest that occurs when there is blunt force trauma to the heart, or the chest wall that overlies the heart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

So they wet the skin that overlies this big balloon of blood right behind their nostrils.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2023

When a strong jet streak overlies a developing low-pressure system, it creates a feedback pattern that makes warm air rise at an increasing rate.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 28, 2022

I have in vain sought this ancient layer of sand,—decidedly of the same era with the argillaceous bed which overlies it,—for aught organic.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds

The former Manchester mayor comes off as a gregarious, upbeat fellow with an admittedly nerdy overlay.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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

UBP cuts duration across all currencies, scales back its sterling duration overlay and reduces exposure to emerging-market local currency bonds, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

The rain had condensed on the windows, covering the cracked windshield like a filmy overlay of lace.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

“This is why you have my support,” one commenter wrote when the video was later posted to Instagram with Gascón gesturing wildly at overlain text highlighting some of his campaign’s priorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

In many Baltic cemeteries horses were buried separately from humans, but there are numerous examples of horses with overlain human cremations.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024

In the Arctic, the pole is covered by an ocean overlain by ice that spreads outward, but soon encounters and freezes onto land masses including the coasts of Alaska, Russia and Canada’s Arctic Islands.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023

On Thursday, Weinstein lawyer Arthur Aidala walked in wearing a wild, light-colored suit with an overlain windowpane, plaid pattern.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2020

This series is overlain unconformably by a younger quartzite of similar character, and itself rests upon the crystalline schists.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

National Fuel Gas owns roughly 1.2 million acres in the Appalachian Basin, with substantial mineral ownership overlying the Marcellus and Utica shales.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

“Very Delta” traverses time, bringing memories together, creating overlying queer maps that support one another’s experiences and add new pieces to an endless puzzle of connections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

This month, the researchers will return to Waesche, looking for more rocks that could confirm whether the loss of overlying ice caused Waesche to wake up.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024

A wide residential and commercial block, known as "Region 9", is being cleared of several metres of overlying pumice and ash thrown out by Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024

I nodded, my fingers finding the bare skin of his forearms, tracing the muscles and overlying veins there.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken