overleap

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“But there are more significant hurdles,” she says: hurdles modern medicine hasn’t found a way to consistently overleap quite yet.

From Time • Nov. 30, 2016

"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.

From Time Magazine Archive

Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.

From Time Magazine Archive

For those two hundred million dollars were a barrier, which a descendant of Crusaders and preux chevaliers could not overleap.

From Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous

In one direction at least, limits are clearly discernible which scientific investigation need not hope to overleap.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas