Synonyms for overlapping
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1. imbrication, overlapping, lappingnoun

   covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)

   Synonyms:
   imbrication, lapping

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1. overlappingadjective

   Synonyms:
   obvolute, obvoluted, imbricate, imbricated

2. overlappingnoun

   Synonyms:
   imbrication

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1. List of paraphrases for "overlapping":

   overlap, duplication, overlaps, overlay, straddling, underhanded, superimposing, duplicate, thrusting, duplicating, intersecting, duplications

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1. Samsung Bioepis:

   We believe that AbbVie has been attempting to obstruct market entry of competing products by applying for a large number of overlapping patents around Humira, which could affect patient access to affordable medication, we believe competition should take place in the market, and not through such misuse of the patent system.

2. Ibrahim Hooper:

   These two forms of hostility seem to be overlapping and reinforcing each other.

3. Stephen Scherer:

   You need to do both tests, because they produce non-overlapping data.

4. Jenevieve Silva:

   Based on what the pediatrician told us, she said ‘I highly believe that they had these overlapping viruses,’.

5. Susan Matt:

   Not all homesickness was necessarily going to kill you, but if you had a really acute case, it would qualify as nostalgia, there are lots of different sets of overlapping descriptions : a shortness of breath, palpitations of the heart, dysentery, fever, problems with the lungs. Or it was feeling an acute yearning, and then your body would start to close down.