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as in overlying
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as in coating
to form a layer over
you should apply a coat of primer first, and then overlay it with two coats of paint
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as in overlapping
to lie over parts of one another
cedar shingles overlaying one another on the roof
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Recent Examples of overlaying
Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 26 Dec. 2025
In Texas, overlaying precincts with current and proposed maps shows how elections could unfold.
—Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
The Quantum Internet will not replace the classical Internet but augment it, overlaying quantum signals with classical bits.
—Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
Podlesí is notorious for its boring atmosphere, overlaying everything like a thick blanket.
—Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Last year at Connect, Meta unveiled its Orion glasses, which are a prototype capable of overlaying complex 3D visuals onto the physical world.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2025
The pins appear to march through the entire valley, overlaying each other and clustering at the locations of ranches and farms.
—Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
At its core, Caption with Intention is a novel captioning design system which aims to significantly augment several critical points of failure within traditional captioning by overlaying animation, color and variable typography to bring the text to life.
—Gus Alexiou, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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The only thing Bloom didn't show on camera were the stocks her husband, David Pownall, purchased for her, as the content creator noted in overlaying text at the beginning of the video.
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The underlying tension was bubbling up to the surface.—
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Beyond premium laptops, Intel is also rolling out mainstream Intel Core processors based on the same underlying Series 3 architecture.—
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David Motley, the city’s public relations director, said in a text that AkzoNobel purchased the Dexter Midland coating business in establishing its presence in Waukegan.—
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Green Consider coating your walls with Benjamin Moore's versatile Palest Pistachio, says Watts.—
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In a world facing overlapping environmental crises, choosing meat-free meals is one of the most immediate and effective ways individuals can reduce their climate impact.—
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Alexander began his career with the Baltimore Ravens as a scout in 1999 and spent 20 seasons with the organization in a variety of roles, overlapping with Harbaugh.—
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First District Legislator Manny Abarca is sponsoring a piece of legislation calling for law enforcement officers in Jackson County — including federal immigration officers — to be prohibited from covering their faces or badges while on the job.—
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Jackson Thompson is a sports reporter for Fox News Digital covering critical political and cultural issues in sports, with an investigative lens.—
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Again, the superposed vector can be decomposed into its constituents.—
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Like entanglement, the superposed states essential to its power are fragile, collapsing when measured or otherwise perturbed by the outside world.—
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But clever techniques can work around this limitation, including adaptive optics, which rapidly reshapes a mirror in the telescope to counter the motion of overlying air.—
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“Overlaying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlaying. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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