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View definitions for overreach

overreach

verb as in exceed

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verb as in outwit

verb as in spread over

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In its response, Harvard said it did not "take lightly" its obligation to fight antisemitism but said the government was overreaching.

From BBC

But at other times, Leslie seems to be overreaching in his quest to ascribe something greater to their relationship, a friendship that was cruelly and tragically cut short.

From Salon

"There is a new imperative in New Zealand on the cultural front, the necessity to address and correct Treaty overreach that has increasingly and evidently become wayward and wrong," she said.

From BBC

“The injunctions are nothing more than partisan judicial overreach and have disrupted the president’s ability to carry out his lawful constitutional duty,” Issa said at the committee hearing.

Coulter, of the Climate Law Institute, said actually preventing states from enforcing their laws would be an illegal and unconstitutional overreach.

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

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