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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Dredge each piece of chicken in the flour until well coated on both sides, shaking off any excess.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026
To help out with that legibility, the hour and minutes hands are coated in Super-LumiNova, alongside touches of white lacquer in the 30-minute counter and the small second hand.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2026

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Our districts overlapped in western Fairfax County, and among other benefits, jointly led town hall meetings made efficient use of our constituents’ time.

— Letters to the Editor, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2026
That progressive sociopolitical stance is evident from the beginning of her career, which overlapped with the emergence of the women’s liberation movement.

— Maria Sherman, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

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