overreach
verb (used with object)
to reach or extend over or beyond.
have overreached
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present perfectof overreach.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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On occasion, they make fair points: Some college administrators have overreached.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
But in Brooklyn, Donoghue pushed back against the idea that his prosecutors might have overreached.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
“The world seems to have overreached in its bid to respond to the energy crisis,” said climate scientist Bill Hare, founder of Climate Action Tracker partner organization Climate Analytics and an author of the report.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
There is just something a little off about them, places where the author seems to have overreached, or had a lapse of taste, or misunderstood a post-structuralist concept.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
"For," said Frank, "old Muley-Hassan, when he finds we have overreached him, may take a fancy to come back and try to wipe us out."
From The Boy Aviators in Africa by John Henry Goldfrap
