overreach

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The legislative panel — the joint Committee on Government Overreach and the Impact of COVID-19 Mandates — heard a day of testimony, most of it from critics of the mandates.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021

Overreach and exaggeration are his stocks in trade; let’s not make them ours.

From New York Times • May 19, 2018

Overreach, however, is a tricky thing to define.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2016

Iago, Shylock and Sir Giles Overreach, and became the rival of Kemble, with whom, however, and with Mrs Siddons, he acted from 1803.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

Another symptom was the emotion, almost to hysterics, which he had exhibited on seeing Kean act Sir Giles Overreach.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas