taboo

Example Sentences

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"People are too embarrassed to talk about issues down below or in their bottoms, it can be embarrassing even taboo, but I want to help break the stigma," Trish said.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

But with your tax preparer, the conversation will turn quickly to that taboo topic — your income.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

For a blip in this post-Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” era, when queerness is once again taboo, the counterculture went mainstream.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026

Finally, the Energy Department needs to reverse the taboo against testing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Thus, among the thousands of culturally diverse native peoples of Australia, the Americas, and Africa, no universal cultural taboo stood in the way of animal domestication.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond