overstep
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Some point out it’s a small percentage of visitors who overstep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
Known to occasionally overstep with her kids by offering hugs or driving a child who missed the bus home, Justine swears she knows as little about the disappearance as everyone else in town.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2025
In the next over, Carse produced a beauty that clattered the off stump, only for a marginal overstep to be detected.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024
“The guidelines are just really a huge overstep I think in my opinion,” Bean told WXYZ-TV.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Relief washes over me that Mom didn’t overstep, but now I feel stupid, because I’ve just given her dirt on me that I didn’t want her to have.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Society loses sight of human reality “when the economy turns against the person or science oversteps the limits of its competence,” he writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
In the annals of strategic oversteps in America’s post-9/11 forever war, our shoeless airport security lines will go down as a footnote.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025
The kinetic staging, while keeping the action from becoming claustrophobic, sometimes oversteps the mark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
The film treads the line of tastelessness, but it never oversteps.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2023
“Someone tend the babe before he oversteps himself,” the noble said to the crowd.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
"The Court has concluded that the Board overstepped its statutory bounds by unilaterally renaming the Kennedy Center after President Trump," Judge Christopher Cooper ruled.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
This time, Florida Board of Governors chairman Alan Levine has written Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of Florida’s State University System, asking him to investigate whether Mr. Hosseini overstepped his authority in the selection process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
There were some in SNP circles who thought the police had seriously overstepped and would eventually face a reckoning.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
Still, Hoppock said, CBP had overstepped in its aggressive handling of the matter, which he called “really something.”
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
Percy looked cautiously at Annabeth, like he was afraid he’d overstepped.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
This column would love to believe that this story is about a vice president overstepping his authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
I want to teach my young relative good money habits without overstepping the parents’ authority.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026
These included avoiding solo trips, road trips, or cycling trips for safety - which many saw as the institutions overstepping their authority in students' private lives.
From BBC ● May 26, 2025
The company has ignored commission demands that it cease work and has filed suit against the commission, accusing it of overstepping its authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
“I may be overstepping myself a little,” I said as I held out my hand for him to shake.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
