The phrase "a broad overlap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant area of similarity or commonality between two or more subjects, concepts, or groups.
Example: "There is a broad overlap in the interests of both organizations, which could lead to potential collaboration."
Alternatives: "a wide intersection" or "a significant convergence".
SEABROOK: Certainly there's a broad overlap, and several of the traits on Hare's Checklist could describe narcissists.
Indirect gradient analysis showed that there is a broad overlap of vegetation types, and that no successional trends can be inferred on the basis of floristic composition alone.
In this between-subject design, we found that despite a broad overlap in brain regions involved in social cognition, the left anterior insula (AI) was activated less if observers were asked to focus on their schadenfreude.
While Weigel sees few similarities between Francis and Bernardin, many others see a broad overlap, and they say that Francis is leading by example, whether the American churchmen see Bernardin's shadow or not.
The cool-temperate Namaqua Bioregion of the west coast and warm-temperate Agulhas Bioregion of the south coast are separated by a broad overlap zone, termed the South-western Cape Bioregion. South-western Cape Bioregion
This results in a broad overlap in the body-size variation of aurochs and cattle, meaning that a medium-scaled bone can either belong to a female aurochs or to a domestic bull.
For a given leaf motion length, a broader overlap produced a higher dose distribution in the matching zone compared with a smaller overlap.
Therefore, we cannot exclude that the enhancer and transcript function might overlap temporally (i.e. same developmental stage) but not spatially (i.e. different tissue) and equally we cannot exclude that a broader overlap could be detected if expression assays had been performed on specific E11.5 tissues in which enhancer function has been observed.
The values used for the correlation analyses showed a continuous distribution with a relatively broad overlap between the three samples rather then group-centred clusters.
Memon et al. [7] confirmed the usefulness of variation in COI sequences in circumscribing a new hemipteran species, but found broad overlap in intraspecific and interspecific distances among sequences of 373 species of Hemiptera downloaded from GenBank.
Besides environmental characteristics of a pasture such as slope, exposition, stone cover and density of woody vegetation, factors such as land use rights are likely to prevail over species-specific diet preferences (Ganskopp and Bohnert 2009), together with high stocking rates and absence of active herding, leading to a broad dietary overlap (Vallentine 2001; Yoshihara et al. 2009).
