Thesaurus results for OVERLAID

overlaid

verb

past tense of overlay

as in coated

to form a layer over you should apply a coat of primer first, and then overlay it with two coats of paint

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as in overlapped

to lie over parts of one another cedar shingles overlaying one another on the roof

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Recent Examples of overlaid The 45-acre recreational facility, which opened in 2004, boasts eight softball fields overlaid with seven soccer fields, batting cages and two playgrounds. — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 27 Aug. 2026 Violet helleborines are incredibly picky orchids, requiring a mature beech forest growing on a clay soil overlaid on chalk. — Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2026 This is overlaid with twee elements that might be part of the mid ’00 nostalgia in the air. — Vogue, 14 Aug. 2026 The glasses then rendered that infrared in shades of red or a red-cyan mixture, overlaid on top of a normal field of visible light. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2026 The Galaxy Watch 9 ships with Wear OS 7 and Samsung’s One UI 9 interface overlaid on top. — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026 The chart below shows an overlay of the Fed funds policy rate in orange overlaid with the short duration 2 year Treasury yield in blue. — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026 Each design was simulated spinning mid-flight and overlaid on 100 real-world backgrounds, then scored by a perceptual model built to mimic human vision, where a lower score meant better camouflage. — New Atlas, 17 July 2026 These tools can even be overlaid on the interview screen itself, claiming to appear invisible and undetectable. — IEEE Spectrum, 13 July 2026

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Drawings in metalpoint must be made on paper coated with a slightly abrasive ground, which is often tinted.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
The drops slid about four centimeters, picked up a charge, rolled off the edge, and then fell five millimeters onto a copper plate coated with a 60-nanometer film of Teflon, which is one of the most chemically resistant coatings on the market today.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026

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This even includes the beloved sneakers of Kobe Bryant, a once peer of Jordan’s whose shoe line had yet to begin taking shape when their on-court careers briefly overlapped.

— Riley Jones, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026
Their amateur careers overlapped from 2009 to 2016, but the pair never met.

— Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026

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