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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are overlaid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is covered or placed on top of another object or layer.
Example: "The images are overlaid to create a composite effect that enhances the visual appeal."
Alternatives: "are layered" or "are superimposed".
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are overlaid
verb
Past of overlay
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Frequently, though, cultures are overlaid.
These photographic images are overlaid on the geometric models.
But it's easy to forget that, since so many performances are overlaid with political symbolism.
Some of the photographs are overlaid to the point of inscrutability by Jack's painting.
These physical elements are overlaid with digitally projected and animated images.
The vases are overlaid with photographs of shopping centres, motorways, suburban homes.
The twisted limbed, the interwoven outlines, are overlaid with a pattern of greys.
He says augmented reality, where images and information services are overlaid on a phone's camera, will explode in 2011.
(When she is not playing live, her recorded music and voice provide accompaniment; sometimes recorded and live performances are overlaid).
His photographs of various rooms are overlaid with flat, fragmentary shapes based on objects in those spaces.
Science is a knowledge base on which these other dimensions of policy decisions interact and are overlaid.
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