Thesaurus results for OVERREACHING

overreaching

verb

present participle of overreach

as in thwarting

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 exceeding

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

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Recent Examples of overreaching 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 The president’s overreaching mass deportation policy will continue. —

Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026 But the agency's conservative critics have long accused the CFPB of overreaching, punishing small lenders and harming businesses. —

Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 21 Jan. 2026 Our norms and expectations are being shattered by an overreaching executive. —

Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 25 Nov. 2025 That includes hackers lurking on public Wi-Fi, your internet service provider, or even an overreaching advertiser trying to build a profile on you. —

Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 3 Nov. 2025 Elected in 2012 amid the Tea Party movement, Massie has been a consistent critic of an overreaching federal government, of budget deficits and foreign interventionism. —

The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025

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In Florida, more government agencies are thwarting the public’s right to know, including attempts to hide the details behind Alligator Alcatraz.

— David Cuillier, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
In addition to thwarting complications, glues and netting can also abate bruising and swelling after facelift surgery, curtailing patients’ recovery.

— Jolene Edgar, Allure, 16 Mar. 2026