overreach

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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

As Bill Sykes he was 853 especially successful, and his Sir Giles Overreach and Brutus were also greatly admired.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

Iago, King Lear, Othello, Shylock, and Sir Giles Overreach were as grand as his private life was intemperate and eccentric.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley