overstep

But after decades of interacting with others, I trust my instincts not to overstep, to know when to stay in my own lane when the other lane doesn’t seem receptive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 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

Our three-branch system of government relies on each branch serving as a check on the other branches' power, ensuring that they don't overstep their authority and boundaries.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025

In the next over, Carse produced a beauty that clattered the off stump, only for a marginal overstep to be detected.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024

To do so would be to overstep the bounds, and to display a bourgeois lack of cool.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

Hikari channels that quality to good use in “Rental Family” but never oversteps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

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

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

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 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

This time, Florida Board of Governors chairman Alan Levine has written Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of Florida’s State University System, asking him to investigate whether Mr. Hosseini overstepped his authority in the selection process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

Moggach added that Linden was now aware that his behaviour "simply was unacceptable and he overstepped certain boundaries."

From BBC ● May 6, 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

Seven police officers were suspended and are under disciplinary investigation for overstepping their authority.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

The mission directors then sued Unilever for overstepping its rights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

I want to teach my young relative good money habits without overstepping the parents’ authority.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026

A message on 29 December showed Ms Bunyan saying she was not a "threat to Mr Renteria's family" and that she admitted overstepping boundaries, but felt Mr Renteria had done the same.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

If it is not overstepping myself, I would greatly appreciate your telling me if you find being a nun very satisfactory, in a spiritual way, of course.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger