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
“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
While offside against Haaland was technically correct in law, it was an overstep by the VAR.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
Some point out it’s a small percentage of visitors who overstep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
I overstep all of my own boundaries when I'm with you.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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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
The kinetic staging, while keeping the action from becoming claustrophobic, sometimes oversteps the mark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
Watch as England miss three big chances to pick up Australian wickets as Jonny Bairstow misses a stumping and drops a catch and Stuart Broad oversteps after bowling Usman Khawaja.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2023
“Someone tend the babe before he oversteps himself,” the noble said to the crowd.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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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
In his lawsuit, Black said the committee overstepped its authority by asking Black about NDAs that weren’t related to Epstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
"The Court has concluded that the Board overstepped its statutory bounds by unilaterally renaming the Kennedy Center after President Trump," Judge Christopher Cooper ruled.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
He knew he had overstepped his ambitions in bringing Hamlet’s madness to light, rousing Claudius’s suspicions.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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At first, Carson is repulsed by Rapp’s slimy overstepping, but she slowly learns not to loathe him.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Seven police officers were suspended and are under disciplinary investigation for overstepping their authority.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
This column would love to believe that this story is about a vice president overstepping his authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Representatives for the creators of “South Park” have accused him of overstepping his authority and meddling with a protracted negotiation over their overall deal and streaming rights to the long-running cartoon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025
Disease usually results from inconclusive negotiations for symbiosis, an overstepping of the line by one side or the other, a biologic misinterpretation of borders.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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