How to Use overbroad in a Sentence

overbroad

adjective
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  • The judge said the law violates free speech rights and is overbroad and vague.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In other words, Walensky may have painted the good news with a slightly overbroad brush.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Later, the city determined that the records request was overbroad.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Trump’s claims that the subpoena, to his accountants at Mazars USA, was issued in bad faith and is overbroad.
    — Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Critics say many are overbroad and include many more people than those reasonably near the scene of a crime.
    — Sidney Fussell, Wired, 2 June 2020
  • There are lots of goofy forms that miss important points, or that have overbroad provisions.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • Rather, it is written to shut parents down by creating a new overbroad and vague criminal law that puts fear in their minds.
    — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But while limits to the authority surely make sense, calls to abolish no-knocks entirely are overbroad.
    — Emily R. Daniel New York Daily News (tns), Star Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
  • But a federal appeals court ruled that the law on encouragement is overbroad and violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment and overturned just those convictions.
    — Jessica Gresko, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • While its path to passage remains less certain than the EU bills—critics argue the proposals are vague and overbroad—the legislation could gain approval later this year.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2022
  • But the report also pointed to how overbroad and undue guardianships are increasing, and how there remains a lack of knowledge about alternatives.
    — Washington Post, 14 July 2021
  • Defense attorneys have argued the charges are vague and overbroad, while others contested the fairness of a jury that will consider alleged crimes committed at the heart of the capital city.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Those customers are required to report ordinary local accounts to the IRS under the overbroad Fatca law, which was meant to target tax evasion via secret overseas accounts.
    — Peter Spiro, wsj.com, 2 Apr. 2023
  • This has provoked an uproar among tattooists who have argued the restrictions are overbroad, sow unnecessary concern among clients and undermine their art.
    — New York Times, 19 June 2022
  • Judge Presnell’s injunction rested on a doctrine peculiar to First Amendment cases, one that allows judges to strike down overbroad laws because of their chilling effect on others’ speech.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The court left open the possibility of deciding whether the law was unconstitutionally overbroad if the issue was raised in an appropriate case.
    — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Legislative Democrats, civil libertarians and local government leaders called the law is overbroad and vague.
    — Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Hansen argued that those counts should have been dismissed because the section of immigration law he was convicted under is overbroad and unconstitutional.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Defendants say the law is vague and overbroad, defining civil disorder as any violent, public disturbance involving more than two people.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • The law uses vague and overbroad vocabulary and discourages participation in protests by criminalizing it lawyers allege in the filing.
    — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The appeals court ruled against Trump’s claim that the subpoena is overbroad, rejecting his argument that the district attorney’s investigation is focused on hush-money payments made by Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer, in 2016.
    — Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The 2020 Economic Report of the President showed that those studies rely on overbroad market definitions that tell us nothing about competition in specific markets, let alone across the entire economy.
    — Alden Abbott, National Review, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The courts have previously found the Arizona Department of Corrections' media policy to be overbroad and unconstitutional.
    — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2022
  • The former provides no practical disincentive for their general usage while the latter is overbroad and could endanger officers’ lives as well as certain investigations.
    — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Companies like Facebook argued that the bill uses overbroad terminology to define high-risk systems, resulting in overregulation.
    — Khari Johnson, Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The requests by the United States to limit defendant’s ability to communicate the way the vast majority of Americans communicate is oppressive, overbroad, and unconstitutional.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 16 Feb. 2021
  • While daily press reporting strains to draw overbroad conclusions from insufficient data, Mr. Gordon, a national security correspondent for the Journal, maximizes history and minimizes judgments.
    — John Bolton, WSJ, 10 June 2022

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