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The phrase "are overlaid with" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has a layer or covering placed on top of it, often in a physical or metaphorical sense.
Example: "The canvas paintings are overlaid with a glossy finish to enhance their colors."
Alternatives: "are covered with" or "are layered with".
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GFP (green) are overlaid with bright field images (a,b).
But it's easy to forget that, since so many performances are overlaid with political symbolism.
Fluorescence images of GFP (green) are overlaid with bright field images (a,b).
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.
His photographs of various rooms are overlaid with flat, fragmentary shapes based on objects in those spaces.
Even more vulgar were his so-called transparencies, in which trashy biblical figures are overlaid with outlines of other bodies.
The guanidine is then removed to allow the proteins to renature, and the blots are overlaid with [gamma-32P]ATP.
Three dark field-transmission electron microscopy images of bilayer graphene are overlaid with colors to show diffraction angles.
The strongest are three paintings whose thick, midsize networks are overlaid with a burly black hieroglyph (or two, as in "A Portrait of the Artist's Mother").
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