overstep

Some point out it’s a small percentage of visitors who overstep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025

Our three-branch system of government relies on each branch serving as a check on the other branches' power, ensuring that they don't overstep their authority and boundaries.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025

In the next over, Carse produced a beauty that clattered the off stump, only for a marginal overstep to be detected.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024

“The guidelines are just really a huge overstep I think in my opinion,” Bean told WXYZ-TV.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

To do so would be to overstep the bounds, and to display a bourgeois lack of cool.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Society loses sight of human reality “when the economy turns against the person or science oversteps the limits of its competence,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

In the annals of strategic oversteps in America’s post-9/11 forever war, our shoeless airport security lines will go down as a footnote.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025

The kinetic staging, while keeping the action from becoming claustrophobic, sometimes oversteps the mark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025

Watch as England miss three big chances to pick up Australian wickets as Jonny Bairstow misses a stumping and drops a catch and Stuart Broad oversteps after bowling Usman Khawaja.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2023

“Someone tend the babe before he oversteps himself,” the noble said to the crowd.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

"The Court has concluded that the Board overstepped its statutory bounds by unilaterally renaming the Kennedy Center after President Trump," Judge Christopher Cooper ruled.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

There were some in SNP circles who thought the police had seriously overstepped and would eventually face a reckoning.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

In 2021, the California Coastal Commission sought to permanently end off-road driving in the dunes but was later overruled by court rulings that the agency had overstepped its authority.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

The court ruled 6-3 that Mr. Trump overstepped his authority by using emergency powers to bypass Congress and impose tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico to address trade imbalances and stop drug smuggling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

The question blurted out like a pitcher’s fast ball, and I knew right off that I had overstepped.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

This column would love to believe that this story is about a vice president overstepping his authority.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

I want to teach my young relative good money habits without overstepping the parents’ authority.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026

Representatives for the creators of “South Park” have accused him of overstepping his authority and meddling with a protracted negotiation over their overall deal and streaming rights to the long-running cartoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025

When she paid a solo visit to communities affected by floods in Rio Grande do Sul, critics accused her of overstepping the mark - she was not elected, they said.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2024

In spite of his parents’ sanction he feels that he is overstepping them, correcting a mistake they’ve made.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri