overstep
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Huang also touted Nvidia OpenShell, a so-called sandbox he said would allow users to make sure that AI agents did not overstep user-defined boundaries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Mike Kaercher, deputy director of the New York University Tax Law Center, called the Treasury’s move a welcome first step in shutting down strategies that overstep the bounds of the law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“Local law enforcement must not be complicit through silence or inaction when federal agents overstep legal and ethical boundaries,” Duarte said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
He was a boy who could sometimes be cheeky but "would never overstep boundaries".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
Relief washes over me that Mom didn’t overstep, but now I feel stupid, because I’ve just given her dirt on me that I didn’t want her to have.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
US District Judge Donald Molloy agreed with TikTok, saying that it "violates the Constitution in more ways than one" and "oversteps state power".
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023
It really comes to a head in these last episodes, when Nate oversteps with Keeley, which was inappropriate and just wrong in lots of ways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
“Someone tend the babe before he oversteps himself,” the noble said to the crowd.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
Peter Crist, chairman of executive-recruitment firm Crist Kolder Associates, who previously worked at Korn Ferry, said the memo overstepped in its analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
However, she definitely overstepped the mark by indicating that leaving the home to her two adult children is the “decent” thing to do.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The company argued in the lawsuit that Defense Secretary Pete Hegeth overstepped his authority with the new designation.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued in December and argued that the president had overstepped his authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
He was put out that I had overstepped myself in denying that I would profit from biochemistry.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
At first, Carson is repulsed by Rapp’s slimy overstepping, but she slowly learns not to loathe him.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Lagarde also took an expansive view of both her job and the ECB’s, sometimes drawing criticism for overstepping her role.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Seven police officers were suspended and are under disciplinary investigation for overstepping their authority.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
These included avoiding solo trips, road trips, or cycling trips for safety - which many saw as the institutions overstepping their authority in students' private lives.
From BBC ● May 26, 2025
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
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