The phrase
"overlapping interests" refers to situations where two or more people or groups share similar desires, goals, or things that they care about. It means they have common interests that align with each other.
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And pretty soon we have this simple but enormously intricate web of interconnection, pulled together not by any single interest in a single topic, but by our many
overlapping interests in dozens of topics.
Samson and Giordano approach art making from seemingly disparate viewpoints, yet their resulting works contain
many overlapping interests.
The two companies feature
multiple overlapping interests, which caused others to follow Musk's example and abstain from voting in the upcoming merger.
A new batch of emails show the close and
sometimes overlapping interests between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.
This publication, produced on the occasion of Cavepainting, an artist - directed project at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, reproduces an email conversation among three painters with
strong overlapping interests - Peter Doig, Chris Ofili and Laura Owens - whose voices evolve into a freewheeling yet cogent exegesis on the state of contemporary painting.
I mean, Regency Romance may sell better, but I seriously doubt I could tempt any of those readers to try my older work... where SO and UF have plenty
of overlapping interests with my old series.
Even within departments, sub-fields are so specialized that there is virtually no dialogue or
overlapping interest with one's colleagues in the same general field.
Join us for a discussion with Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, the US government's lead human rights official, about
the overlapping interests that connect science, technology and human rights.
Less explicit — and what makes this exhibition unexpected and intriguing — are the themes and stylistic concerns she also shares with Schiele, a painter of an earlier generation, and
their overlapping interest in conveying the emotional and psychological realism of their subjects in their own unique painterly vocabulary.
As a result of
our overlapping interests, we maintain a tight, intense, and lasting friendship, and by extension, our galleries work well together.
In this way, me and the PETA folks and the vegetarians have something in common, an area of
overlapping interests.