overstep
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“Local law enforcement must not be complicit through silence or inaction when federal agents overstep legal and ethical boundaries,” Duarte said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
Some point out it’s a small percentage of visitors who overstep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
Our three-branch system of government relies on each branch serving as a check on the other branches' power, ensuring that they don't overstep their authority and boundaries.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
His overstep appeared to have decided the game in Phoenix's favour but he showed nerves of steel to recover the situation.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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
US District Judge Donald Molloy agreed with TikTok, saying that it "violates the Constitution in more ways than one" and "oversteps state power".
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023
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
Politicians have always overstepped boundaries and bent rules.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
I was just a little kid, and I realized that I had overstepped.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
The mission directors then sued Unilever for overstepping its rights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
"No matter what your beliefs, you should be able to do your role as a councillor without abuse from the wider public and people should be able to debate without overstepping boundaries," Madgwich said.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
But navigating the ins and outs of stories that intertwine without overstepping has required nimbleness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
I want to teach my young relative good money habits without overstepping the parents’ authority.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026
Disease usually results from inconclusive negotiations for symbiosis, an overstepping of the line by one side or the other, a biologic misinterpretation of borders.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
