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present participle and gerund of overlap examples
comparative more overlapping, superlative most overlapping
That overlaps something else quotations examples
A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick., archived from the original on 11 August 2014
plural overlappings
The situation in which things overlap. quotations examples
This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10