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overreach

verb as in exceed

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verb as in outwit

verb as in spread over

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There are limits to what we can do and there were terrible consequences for overreaching those limits.

With the changes, consumers become more aware of which companies want access to their data, while Apple can claim it’s protecting users from overreaching companies.

From Time

There's more unity around the need to go after foreign extremists than domestic ones — and less danger of overreaching and provoking a backlash.

From Axios

Both groups lasted significantly longer on the treadmill after the one-week taper, which tells us that they weren’t non-functionally overreached.

Sure enough, the runners classified as overreaching had a significantly higher proportion of fast-twitch fibers.

The danger of a potential Republican overreach or overreaction was clearly on the minds of people in both parties Wednesday.

This entire ordeal reeks of bureaucratic overreach being bandied about in the name of “let-us-save-the-children” politics.

Second is the sense of a deep invasion of privacy and government overreach in their lives.

But U.S. intelligence officials say the secret to defeating ISIS may be to wait for its overreach to catch up with it.

At a recent forum, Pompeo said that the president had engaged in “absolute overreach.”

It does not anywhere appear that Johann ever attempted to overreach him or lead him to financial injury.

Then said she, 'As to the enchantments and spells that shall overreach him, and as to the blade wherewith to shear him?'

You are very wise, you have the wisdom of a devil, but even you can overreach yourself.

It is not an uncommon occurrence for a rascal to overreach himself.

Traveling expenses to Kansas, and the tracts, make the debtor column overreach the creditor some two thousand dollars.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overreach, such as: overdo, overact, overextend, and outreach.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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