Example Sentences

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His reign overlapped with the papacy of Hadrian I, which lasted from 772 to 795.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Mentioning that his faith was something that many viewers connected with, she asked him if his faith and comedy overlapped.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

As these possible paths overlapped later in the experiment, they produced a detectable striped interference pattern that matched the predictions of quantum theory.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

Given government censorship and the cultural divisions among tech platforms, Chinese and American social media users never really overlapped to see each others’ regular routines and memes.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

The bottom was of a pale, creamy stone over which undulating white-edged rectangles of refracted sunlight divided and overlapped.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan