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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Lastly, Pius the Fifth, urged by that fiery enthusiasm which made him overlook or overleap every obstacle in his path, would have marched on Constantinople, and then carried his conquering banners to the Holy Land.

From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by Prescott, William Hickling

Now and then he made little semi-jocose attempts to overleap it, but at the worst a word could curb him where a glance failed.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar