Get to know Overreach better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like fail or outdo.
Overreach meaning
- To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
- To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (British, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.
Synonyms of Overreach
Using Overreach
- The main meaning on this page is: To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree. | To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree. | To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (British, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.
- Useful related words include: fail, outdo, exceed, outgo.
- In the example corpus, overreach often appears in combinations such as: government overreach, overreach and, overreach by.
Context around Overreach
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overreach
- In this selection, "overreach" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, government, prosecutorial, liberal and runs stand out and add context to how "overreach" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include result of overreach on the and a federal overreach. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overreach" sits close to words such as asbury, azam and bally, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overreach
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
If government overreach runs our economy, then again democracy dies. (10 words)
He took the lead in pushing the government to reconsider this dubious overreach. (13 words)
Sierra Club Senior Campaign Representative Caroline Hansley has accused Congress of a federal overreach. (14 words)
It was too unwieldly, many said, an overreach by a publicity-hungry local prosecutor trying to burnish her reputation by going after the former president, who was already facing indictment by the Special Counsel for committing many of the same crimes. (41 words)
Mere mention of “judicial reform”, through which the coalition endeavors to undo progressive judicial overreach, is enough to send protestors spilling into the streets of Tel Aviv and onto the pages of mainstream and social media. (36 words)
Just when you thought bureaucratic overreach was a strictly American pastime, your friends across the pond have decided to toss our hats — or should I say, tulips — into the ring. (32 words)
I’m curious…if Trump is the result of overreach on the left, what do you think will be the result of overreach on the right? (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
I’m curious…if Trump is the result of overreach on the left, what do you think will be the result of overreach on the right?
After several trials of dropped charges and not-guilty verdicts for DxE open rescues, Hsiung’s felony charges suggest a shift in tactics by the authorities — and a troubling prosecutorial overreach.
Another flavor of this hate comes in right-wing scare stories about dystopian police states created by liberal overreach in the name of public health or environmentalism.
As a climate change denier, he has pushed for more aggressive off-shore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and sued the Environmental Protection Agency for overreach.
But local pro-lifers are pushing back strongly, and predict that the abortion lobby’s extremism will galvanize public opposition to their legislative overreach.
But Republican House Minority Leader Lisa Demuth said the proposal is an overreach from Democrats who swept control of government in the last election.
Forde MP Bert van Manen said the market intervention was an example of government overreach, and that price caps could have unforeseen consequences.
He took the lead in pushing the government to reconsider this dubious overreach.
If government overreach runs our economy, then again democracy dies.
Its supporters allege that the plan will end decades of overreach by judges, while opponents argue that it will remove necessary checks on the power that is wielded by the politicians.
It was presented as an example of the state’s overreach when drawing district lines.
It was too unwieldly, many said, an overreach by a publicity-hungry local prosecutor trying to burnish her reputation by going after the former president, who was already facing indictment by the Special Counsel for committing many of the same crimes.
Just when you thought bureaucratic overreach was a strictly American pastime, your friends across the pond have decided to toss our hats — or should I say, tulips — into the ring.
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle pledged not to extend the surveillance powers without reforms addressing their concerns on civil liberties, government overreach, and FBI misuse.
Mere mention of “judicial reform”, through which the coalition endeavors to undo progressive judicial overreach, is enough to send protestors spilling into the streets of Tel Aviv and onto the pages of mainstream and social media.
Michael is an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit legal organization that defends Americans’ liberties when threatened by government overreach and abuse.
Most believe the SEC’s assertion that it is a security is an example of overreach by an organization that has lost 4 of its last 5 cases in the Supreme Court.
On Saturday, Asif took it upon himself to apologise for the raid, after the people from his own constituency in Sialkot called it a massive overreach of executive authority.
Sierra Club Senior Campaign Representative Caroline Hansley has accused Congress of a federal overreach.
Some people, however, say such actions would amount to governmental overreach when it comes to someone’s private property.
Common combinations with overreach
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- government overreach 22×
- overreach and 14×
- overreach by 10×
- overreach in 9×
- of overreach 7×
- federal overreach 6×
- overreach of 6×
- overreach on 5×
- the overreach 5×
- regulatory overreach 5×