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- verb Present participle of
overreach .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights
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Examples
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The effort is being cheered by many in the produce industry, who often complain about what they call overreaching by regulators and welcome a company with resources pushing back.
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM NEUMAN 2011
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Luckily for people who like music the results of such overreaching is generally glorious.
Matthew Yglesias » Canadian Indie Rock Supergroups Overreaching 2010
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Recent history suggests that for the GOP, the risk of overreaching is at least as great as that of not doing enough.
Once again, the electorate demanded a new start Karen Tumulty 2010
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Such government overreaching is what we've come to expect from this administration .
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Recent history suggests that for the GOP, the risk of overreaching is at least as great as that of not doing enough.
Once again, the voters demand a new start Karen Tumulty 2010
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Such government overreaching is what we've come to expect from this administration,
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Such government overreaching is what we've come to expect from this administration, she says.
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He spoke out against what he called the overreaching judicial activism of the courts whom he said “bypass the democratic process” when expanding rights for women, gays and others by interpreting the Constitution.
The Courts 2009
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Is anyone surprised at more moneygrubbing and overreaching from the guy who stiffed small vendors with the arena's bankruptcy, and who named his yacht "Octopus?"
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After all, overreaching is what Ashcroft knows how to do best.
Balkinization 2003
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