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

He hoped to answer whether humans had overlapped with them and possibly caused their demise.

From Washington Post • May 25, 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

Four years after graduating, she married Desmond, with whom she had overlapped at Oxford.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014

He saw how Israel had overlapped his palms so that there was no way Thor could slip between them.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold