The phrase "appear to overlap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing similarities or commonalities between two or more subjects, ideas, or concepts.
Example: "The findings from both studies appear to overlap, suggesting a potential correlation between the variables."
Alternatives: "seem to coincide" or "seem to intersect".
(Some details here appear to overlap with those of the murdered INLA leader Dominic McGlinchey, whom O'Brien met when researching the earlier novel).
It has occasionally been considered a subspecies of Andean Guan, but the two species appear to overlap in western Colombia and southwest Ecuador with no apparent integradation.
The Chandra data (blue) reveal clumpy structures along one side of the remnant, and appear to overlap with infrared data (orange).
In September, at an esoteric meeting called the Fourth International Workshop for the Study of Itch, I heard that, curiously, pain can suppress itching, because the neural circuits for the two sensations appear to overlap.
While it is difficult to conclude how something like a Twitter post influences opinion, Twitter users with differing opinions on last week's debate do not appear to overlap much in what they consume on the social network.
− MMS display updated so messages no longer appear to overlap each other.
The bases would be filled with billboard-sized microwave reflectors that from Earth, says Criswell, would appear to overlap.
In Fig. 3b, some of the earthquakes that belong to the PAC group appear to overlap with the shallow group.
Retinoid-IFN combinations have shown significant antitumor activity against advanced cutaneous and cervical squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and the toxic effects do not appear to overlap.
Comparing RT spectra with 77 K, magnetite sextets appear to overlap more thoroughly at 77 K, which is commonly observed below the Verwey transition temperature (~ 120 K).
Based on petrographic observation, the euhedral dolomite rhombs are scattered throughout a very fine crystalline matrix and appear to overlap and cut across the finer crystals (Fig. 5f).
