Thesaurus results for OVERREACH

overreach

verb

ˌō-vər-ˈrēch

as in to defeat

to get the better of through cleverness a real estate developer who is always trying to overreach his competitors, fair means or foul

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as in to exceed

to go beyond the limit of the mountain climbers overreached their abilities and paid for it dearly

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Recent Examples of overreach Did Texas Republicans overreach with their mid-decade gerrymandering? —

David Remnick, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 But some Bay Area cities and counties already have decided that the Flock Safety tools are too overreaching. —

Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026 That caused some unease in the business community that Douglas County was overreaching. —

John Aguilar, Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2026 Commentators quickly pointed out that Anthropic itself has faced high‑profile accusations of overreaching in its own data collection practices beyond the copyright case from authors, such as a separate case over scraping Reddit content. —

Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for overreach

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Nico Santonastaso struck out 10 and allowed two earned runs over seven innings, and Jack Thompson registered three hits and an RBI as Mystic Valley defeated Minuteman, 10-5.

— Tyler McManus, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026
Josiah Rodriguez was 3-for-5 with a double, a home run and four RBIs and Mason Cook hit a two-run home run as PLNU defeated Concordia 9-1 in Santa Barbara to complete a three-game tournament sweep.

— Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026