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 may not have overlapped comfortably, but Perry picks up on their harmonies.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
Those are all movements that have overlapped and spurred book-banning debates.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2022
It means our time there would have overlapped.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
