overreach

Example Sentences

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The legislative panel — the joint Committee on Government Overreach and the Impact of COVID-19 Mandates — heard a day of testimony, most of it from critics of the mandates.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021

Overreach and exaggeration are his stocks in trade; let’s not make them ours.

From New York Times • May 19, 2018

Overreach, however, is a tricky thing to define.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2016

This is but the second time for any thing under reality: the first was on seeing Kean's Sir Giles Overreach.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

Mr. Davenport gave us his "Richelieu," "Julian St. Pierre," in "The Wife," "Hamlet," "William" in "Black-Eyed Susan," "Rover" in "Wild Oats" and "Sir Giles Overreach" in "A New Way to Pay Old Debts."

From The Mormons and the Theatre or The History of Theatricals in Utah by Lindsay, John S.