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In many Baltic cemeteries horses were buried separately from humans, but there are numerous examples of horses with overlain human cremations.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2024

It’s his own method to bring discipline to interviews that can be brief, chaotic and overlain by sirens and ambient sounds of human distress.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2022

Tornadoes are born of severe thunderstorms when warm humid surface air is overlain by cooler, drier air aloft, producing what meteorologists call a “conditionally unstable atmosphere.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

On Thursday, Weinstein lawyer Arthur Aidala walked in wearing a wild, light-colored suit with an overlain windowpane, plaid pattern.

From Washington Times • Feb. 1, 2020

They are accretions which, by a very natural and intelligible process, have overlain the oldest and really fundamental ideas which lie at the root and origin of sacrifice.

From Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 by Beibitz, J. H. (Joseph Hugh)