overlap
verb (used with object)
to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
had overlapped
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past perfectof overlap.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The WFP said last month that multiple emergencies had overlapped creating the largest and most complex hunger and humanitarian crisis in more than 70 years.
From Reuters ● Jul. 11, 2023
The fact that she had overlapped with four presidents was the entire point.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2022
Mr. Hofer said his farm provided pigs to Kapowsin but did not know if the sales had overlapped with the outbreak.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2019
O’Brien and Gould had overlapped at Harvard, and knew the poet and critic William Stanley Braithwaite.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2015
They calculate the many months that they were in that distant city together, on trips that had overlapped by weeks and once by months, unaware of each other’s presence.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
