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vaulting

adjective as in overreaching

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Beyond this, Beijing’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” which seeks to transform the whole of Eurasia, and the maritime “String of Pearls” concept, which attempts something similar in the Indo-Pacific, shows the PRC’s vaulting ambition.

From Time

We’re not pole-vaulting over the lines here, but it’s more than what has been in the past, but it remains to be seen what the Congressional reaction to this will be and I think that’s what’s making everyone very nervous right now.

From Digiday

The combination of its vaulting promise and tenuous future captures well the larger state of play in the world of green jobs.

From Time

One in particular is worth looking at, in light of what happened to Biles on the vaulting floor in Tokyo on July 27, 2021.

One fliptwisttwisttableElite male gymnasts, who use a higher vaulting table and generally have more power, already have performed double-flipping Yurchenkos in competition, but it’s still not common.

The film is going to be a huge critical and commercial hit, vaulting Stoller into the upper echelon of Hollywood comedy directors.

Yet it is his warnings that stand up better than the more vaulting ambitions of some of Grunwald's more preferred protagonists.

The blockbuster Rush Hour films soon followed, immediately vaulting Tucker to the A-list.

The nave is modern (by Street, 1877), imitating the choir of the 14th century, with its curious skeleton-vaulting in the aisles.

They saw faint images of painted martyrs and angels peering down from the frieze and vaulting.

This roof, with its dormer windows, did not cover a stone vaulting, but a panelled ceiling.

There was no vaulting, the church having a timber-work roof in shape of an inverted keel.

At the triforium base foliated brackets support vaulting shafts of three clustered columns.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vaulting, such as: eager, enthusiastic, excessive, high-flown, opportunistic, and overweening.

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

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