Examples of overstep in a Sentence
the principal overstepped her authority in ordering everyone to remain in the unheated school
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In a brief authored by Ben Mesches and other attorneys from Haynes Boone, Holland & Knight and Wilkinson Stekloff, the NCAA argues that Lubbock County (Texas) District Court Judge Ken Curry overstepped his authority last Monday when declaring Sorsby immediately eligible.
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 June 2026
This extravagant, cartoonish, and shockingly unfunny folly about the hysteria surrounding a Japanese invasion of California shows a boy-wonder director testing his limits — and overstepping them.
—Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026
The trade court ruled 2-1 that Trump overstepped the tariff power that Congress had delegated to the president under the law.
—ABC News, 11 June 2026
Last week, a disagreement over the electoral law erupted into a power struggle between Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and the Provisional Electoral Council after council members accused the government of overstepping its authority and acting unconstitutionally.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 8 June 2026
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 June 2026
This extravagant, cartoonish, and shockingly unfunny folly about the hysteria surrounding a Japanese invasion of California shows a boy-wonder director testing his limits — and overstepping them.
—Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026
The trade court ruled 2-1 that Trump overstepped the tariff power that Congress had delegated to the president under the law.
—ABC News, 11 June 2026
Last week, a disagreement over the electoral law erupted into a power struggle between Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and the Provisional Electoral Council after council members accused the government of overstepping its authority and acting unconstitutionally.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 8 June 2026
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“Overstep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overstep. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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