Example Sentences

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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

“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

"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 Goldfrap, John Henry