Example Sentences

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In its opening statement, Credit Suisse said the proceedings against the bank were "overreaching".

From Reuters • Sep. 5, 2022

First ladies have also often played critical roles when they thought advisers were overreaching.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2017

Worse for the government, judges questioned the basis for the 11 counts of involuntary manslaughter, making points even the defendants hadn’t raised, conveying their sense that prosecutors were overreaching.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2016

Cammack's attorney, Deborah Perry, told the Express-News during the trial earlier this week that prosecutors were overreaching.

From US News • Oct. 29, 2015

But by such measures the Old Lights were overreaching themselves.

From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Greene, Maria Louise