overlap
verb (used with object)
to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
have overlapped
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present perfectof overlap.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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They're men of the same post-war generation - Trump aged 79 and the King aged 76 - who have overlapped for decades.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
Those two canids have overlapped in the Northern Hemisphere for at least 11,000 years, he says, but show little evidence of interbreeding.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 6, 2023
Before SDNY, Kaplan was a longtime partner at the NYC law firm Paul, Weiss—which means he would have overlapped with Barbara Fried, who worked there for three years before joining Stanford Law in 1987.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023
In the middle of the city’s ”hot labor summer,” hotel workers, screenwriters and actors have overlapped in the strikes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
Our stories might have overlapped for a while—long enough that they even looked like the same story.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
