Example Sentences

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Big power bills are overlapping with rising food prices and inflation that remains persistently above the Federal Reserve’s target, frustrating Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

We have distinctive cultural hubs specific to this or that group — Greek Americans, say, or El Salvadorans or Japanese Americans — but in most cases these hubs are overlapping, sharing space with one another.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2024

And because things that make sense to me make sense to her in the same way, you can see that there are overlapping emotions.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2023

“As far as law enforcement agencies, there are overlapping jurisdictions as well,” Raoul said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023

He visits the fortune-teller, who does not recognize him but lays his future out in polite rows of cards, though she admits that bits of it are overlapping and confusing.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern