overleap

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“But there are more significant hurdles,” she says: hurdles modern medicine hasn’t found a way to consistently overleap quite yet.

From Time • Nov. 30, 2016

"See the carp swim strongly against the rapids and overleap even the waterfall." said Mrs. Saito.

From Time Magazine Archive

Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap.

From Time Magazine Archive

How very easily, seeing one half the truth, we can overleap too much intervening space and falsify the remaining half!

From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Morford, Henry

But when they wish to arrive at the chief good, they overleap everything, and leave us two tasks instead of one—namely, to choose some things and desire others, instead of including both under one head.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke