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Recent Examples of overreach With that First Amendment right comes a responsibility not to destroy property, loot or condone violence, and a parallel responsibility by police and other law-enforcement not to overreact or overreach. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 June 2025 Levitsky points out that already, there is some evidence that Trump may have overreached, and is losing support. Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025 Doug McIntosh, Plantation Too much overreach The CHOICE Act is too severe. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2025 The judicial system has simply overreached with most battles of the administration. Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for overreach
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overreach
Verb
  • This will be the second matchup of the season between the two teams, with the Mercury defeating the Sky 94-89 on May 27, 2025.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
  • Mullins defeated Zhelezniakova via TKO in 2022 on an Ares card.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • That deal could have reached as high as £89m (€100m) were subsequent clauses met; the amounts guaranteed on the sale of Wirtz have already exceeded that figure.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • Annual interest payments now already exceed $1 trillion, and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has called it a red flag.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • Bill Daly is a former FBI investigator who worked to thwart terror attacks and dealt with foreign counterintelligence.
    Peter D'Abrosca , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2025
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    Parker Hall, Wired News, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • The market could surpass those previous records on Friday or early next week, analysts told CBS MoneyWatch.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, a 2024 forecast by Research and Markets estimates the digital education sector will surpass $80 billion by 2030, driven by microlearning and online skill monetization.
    Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • The person is not trying to deceive or control, but the behavior still affects others and requires self awareness and growth to correct.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
  • Where was this sense of urgency when the mullahs were attempting to deceive U.N. inspectors while sandbagging U.S. efforts to diplomatically scuttle the country’s nuclear efforts?
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • The Thunder overcame two Game 7s en route to the title, and they will now forever be called champions.
    Matt Levine, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • Advertisement Indiana tried its best to overcome heartbreak in Game 7: Tyrese Haliburton, the Pacers’ star point guard who was playing with a calf strain in his right leg, suffered an achilles injury in the first quarter.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • When the organization behind the heist sniffs him out, he's got to outsmart them.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 6 May 2025
  • This led to residents trying to outsmart the clever birds by putting weights on the lids to prevent the cockatoos from digging through the trash.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 June 2025
Verb
  • Even though baby clothes and newborn diapers feel too tiny to wreak havoc, don’t be fooled!
    Briana Feigon, Architectural Digest, 19 June 2025
  • Perhaps that’s what fans were griping about last year — that Burns didn’t have it anymore and Slavin was papering over all those issues, enough to fool this model.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 18 June 2025

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“Overreach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overreach. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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