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

It means our time there would have overlapped.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman