overreach

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

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

From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026

Holders of this viewpoint argue that regulating therapy risks governmental overreach into private belief and expression.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

Environmentalists have said that the ban will harm sustainability efforts and is an overreach by the meat and dairy industries.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

And he was also biding his time, waiting for Archie to overreach himself, to make a mistake.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier