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
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
“The guidelines are just really a huge overstep I think in my opinion,” Bean told WXYZ-TV.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
I overstep all of my own boundaries when I'm with you.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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 film treads the line of tastelessness, but it never oversteps.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2023
Watch as England miss three big chances to pick up Australian wickets as Jonny Bairstow misses a stumping and drops a catch and Stuart Broad oversteps after bowling Usman Khawaja.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2023
“Someone tend the babe before he oversteps himself,” the noble said to the crowd.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
A man could be well turned-out, but if he made too much of his wardrobe or grooming, he overstepped the bounds of good taste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"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
Still, Hoppock said, CBP had overstepped in its aggressive handling of the matter, which he called “really something.”
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
Moggach added that Linden was now aware that his behaviour "simply was unacceptable and he overstepped certain boundaries."
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
The question blurted out like a pitcher’s fast ball, and I knew right off that I had overstepped.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
The mission directors then sued Unilever for overstepping its rights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
I want to teach my young relative good money habits without overstepping the parents’ authority.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026
When she paid a solo visit to communities affected by floods in Rio Grande do Sul, critics accused her of overstepping the mark - she was not elected, they said.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2024
GDL chairman Claus Weselsky “is overstepping the mark further and further,” Wissing added.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
Dad gave me a sharp look, and I knew I needed to make my point quickly or risk overstepping.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
