How to Use overreach in a Sentence

overreach

verb
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  • The company overreached itself and ran out of money after one year.
  • She overreaches in her latest book, and her argument is not convincing.
  • That is, opposed to government overreach against the slave owners right to own slaves ..
    — For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The all-encompassing nature of the ban makes it even worse, in Alito's view, due to overreach.
    — Joe Mullin, Ars Technica, 19 June 2017
  • Some have said Deter's office overreached with charges murder and voluntary manslaughter.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2017
  • But an early sampling of the program suggests the studio might have overreached in asking this relatively obscure comics title to bridge the divide.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Unions contend that police chiefs are prone to overreach, especially when there is public or political pressure to fire officers.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Critics are claiming the government overreached in its execution of the Supreme Court’s order.
    — Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg.com, 4 July 2017
  • The style of play that tends to win is plodding and overreached.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The courts did not reach a conclusion on whether the state statute was overreaching.
    — Ralph Ellis, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
  • In deciding the case at all, Kagan said the court overreached.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 June 2023
  • Mayor, this is a jobs killer, the worst kind of government overreach.
    — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Are investors overreaching as the A.I. hype curve peaks?
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 2 July 2023
  • This hardly feels like the time, though, to be the thought contrarian or overreach.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • And sellers who have tracked the years-long upswing might now be overreaching.
    — OregonLive.com, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Some of the stuff hasn’t lasted, like the idea that God punishes people who are overreaching by causing them to have the plague.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
  • In the case of Foster, the Republicans might have overreached with the socialist thing.
    — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 2 July 2019
  • And overreach by the DEA is destroying tens of thousands of patients’ lives for no good reason.
    — STAT, 28 June 2019
  • Meanwhile, 40% of voters said Democrats did not overreach.
    — Nic Garcia, The Denver Post, 25 July 2019
  • Some commenters have dismissed the case as police overreach.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • And the streamers have overreached and recaptured too much value.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Judicial overreach in Madrid will not conceal that for long.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The fatal temptation in a moment of triumph is to overreach, and Democrats are already at risk of trying to grab too much.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Regardless of the intentions, some feel the bill might be overreaching.
    — Andrew Nicla, azcentral, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The conviction among his critics that Sessions is racist has sometimes led them to overreach.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Still, the Republicans could overreach and give Democrats an opening.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Basically this is a struggle to define what is within the purview of oversights and what is overreach.
    — Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • The food industry calls the rules government overreach.
    — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Their lawyers are still trying to get the case thrown out, arguing the charges are overreaching and unwarranted.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Jennifer Crumbley's lawyer, Shannon Smith, who will likely address the jury pool on Wednesday, has long argued that the parents had no way of knowing their son would commit a school shooting and that the prosecutor is overreaching in this case.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2024

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