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View definitions for overreach

overreach

verb as in exceed

Strongest match

Strong matches

Weak match

verb as in outwit

verb as in spread over

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Republicans have already vowed to appeal, calling the decision “judicial overreach.”

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That, in fact, might have involved a bit of overreach.

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Sure, we loathe the IMF’s overreach and the way oil companies take countries to court to dismantle their environmental regulations.

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Universal Ostrich Farms has fought the order since, and the case has attracted international attention including from senior White House officials who have criticised it as an example of government overreach.

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Created by Mike Makowsky, it isn’t free from theatrical effects, dramatic overreach or obvious statements, but as period pieces go, it’s unusually persuasive, in big and little ways.

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