overlaid
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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It then overlaid a valuation screen on its score card, and came up with four names.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
The GPS showed him ground coordinates, but there was no overlaid image—no moving dot or icon—that showed where he was in relation to those coordinates.
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2025
Thoughtfully placed inserts—most often religious imagery and text—were overlaid on the images to fill in negative space.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Thousands of bright stars, shown in red and blue, are overlaid on Gaia's detailed map of the Milky Way.
From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 2025
This was a bedroom with a plain iron bedstead overlaid with a thin white quilt.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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