The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word OVERLAP
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More clues leading to the result OVERLAP
- Shared territory is finished with China backtracking
- Some deliveries friend picked up showing a degree of duplication
- Partly cover lapel?
- Share some room together, having finished drink
- Partly coincide as regards circuit
- coincide in part with deliveries friend sent up
- Lay on another finished circuit
- Coincide to an extent having finished circuit
- Coincide somewhat with couch potato’s eating preference?
- A plover distressed by time/space convergence?
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The straight part
We know that "Coincide to an extent" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case coincide to an extent = overlap.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does OVERLAP mean?
OVERLAP noun- Something that overlaps or is overlapped
- A situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.
- The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.
- To extend over and partly cover something.
- To have an area, range, character or function in common.
- Of sets: to have some elements in common.
- To have some similar nucleotide sequences.