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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The water itself, perhaps a hundred feet wide, would be an ineffectual barrier; such fierce flame would overleap it.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely

Sometimes he would succeed so well for a flash that it only made the impalpable but stern barrier of personality more definite even while almost seeming to overleap it.

From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)