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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overlie .
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Examples
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Delicatessen by Mark Caro and Jean-Pierre Juenet is a surreal post-apocalyptic black comedy set in the house belonging to a butcher who provides suspicious meats to his tenants and overlies a world populated by troglydytes who eat only grain.
MIND MELD: The Most Intelligent Films of Science Fiction 2009
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This often overlies a well of grief, and if unmourned, it simmers, at times boiling over and burning all those in close proximity.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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After all, a warm and humid atmosphere that is capable of sustaining thunderstorm clusters, that overlies bath-like ocean water, and that slowly rotates in a counterclockwise fashion, is an ideal place for tropical cyclone development.
Tropical storm Nicole not so tropical Greg Postel 2010
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This often overlies a well of grief, and if unmourned, it simmers, at times boiling over and burning all those in close proximity.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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This is necessary: the playful veneer displayed by Clegg and Cameron at their rose garden press conference last week overlies great uncertainties.
The public wants a ceasefire, so let's give peace a chance 2010
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This goal overlies and explains everything the party does.
A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010
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It overlies quaternary deposits mainly of sand sheets.
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Geologically, Ujung Kulon, Gunung Honje and Pulau Panaitan are part of a young Tertiary mountain system, which overlies the pre-Tertiary strata of the Sunda Shelf.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia 2009
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The Park overlies a segment of a 400 km long southwest-trending fossil reef that surrounds the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas which was a small reef-fringed inland sea in Permian times 280-250 mya.
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Geologically, the ecoregion overlies a mixture of Precambrian basement rocks, and a number of post-Jurassic sedimentary basins.
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