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
“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
“You can think that child trafficking is a horrible thing … and still think that prosecutors have overreached by going after the CEO of a classified advertising service,” Greene said.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2016
Many of the noblest characters the world has produced have overreached their intentions, and sunk into fanaticism.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 by William Chambers
