beyond the reach of

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: beyond the control of
His illness was beyond the reach of medicine.

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When Silva could only half-clear Neto’s cross, Joao Pedro took one touch to control the ball, another to get it out from under his feet and then curled it perfectly beyond the reach of goalkeeper Fabio. Oliver Kay, New York Times, 9 July 2025 What would then keep him from declaring immigration as an emergency and throwing millions of taxpayer dollars at it — money beyond the reach of legislative oversight? Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2025 Bitcoin, then a fringe idea, offered a glimpse of resistance: a currency that didn’t need permission, couldn’t be blocked and ran beyond the reach of gatekeepers. Viktor Trón, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025 Not ten feet away, a man moved his bowels beside a street near Union Square, while pedestrians passed him with the unconcern of people already elsewhere, émigrés to a pixelated country beyond the reach of others’ desperation. Andrew Kay, Harpers Magazine, 28 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for beyond the reach of

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“Beyond the reach of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beyond%20the%20reach%20of. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.

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