as in to exceed
to go beyond the limit of
the principal overstepped her authority in ordering everyone to remain in the unheated school
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But in 2022, a federal judge overturned that decision, saying the government overstepped its authority and based its determination on faulty reasoning.
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Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
And the conservatives agreed that the Trump administration had wrongly banned bump stocks by classifying them as machine guns, a decision not about the 2nd Amendment but about whether a regulatory agency had overstepped its authority.
—Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
The six states had filed a lawsuit in April accusing Biden of overstepping his authority with the creation of Save.
—Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
Liam’s drunken comments about his ongoing divorce from Kensit turned into a free-for-all of abuse that overstepped the mark.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 July 2024
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Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
And the conservatives agreed that the Trump administration had wrongly banned bump stocks by classifying them as machine guns, a decision not about the 2nd Amendment but about whether a regulatory agency had overstepped its authority.
—Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
The six states had filed a lawsuit in April accusing Biden of overstepping his authority with the creation of Save.
—Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
Liam’s drunken comments about his ongoing divorce from Kensit turned into a free-for-all of abuse that overstepped the mark.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 July 2024
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“Overstep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overstep. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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