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overreach

[oh-ver-reech] / ˌoʊ vərˈritʃ /
VERB
exceed
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It included retirees worried about executive overreach, young parents concerned about Congress ceding its constitutional role, veterans supporting Ukraine, and immigrants who know firsthand what authoritarianism looks like.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Labor Department aims to free retirement plans from regulatory overreach and litigation abuse.

From The Wall Street Journal

The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said it was an "unfortunate overreach" that was "difficult to understand or justify".

From BBC

And where that happens, I think it clearly is an overreach.

From Barron's

Not even Anthropic’s competitors, which have raised concerns about how the precedent could allow for government overreach and stunt the technology’s development.

From The Wall Street Journal