taboo

Air conditioning, long disdained in France, is "no longer taboo at all", Jehanno said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I want for it not to be taboo to ask, ‘What is the accountability for these women?’

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

"People don't talk about having no friends a lot... I think it's still what people would consider embarrassing or a little taboo," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The company is breaking luxury-industry taboo by cutting the price of some existing products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

“It’s taboo for me. I’ll get in serious trouble. I’ll probably turn into a snake or something.”

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

“There are a number of taboos that have been broken,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

Over the next decade, Hockney continued to break social taboos by celebrating same-sex relationships in his art - often by depicting the quiet, everyday moments of gay domestic life.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

EU industry chief Stephane Sejourne celebrated the EU nuclear pivot Tuesday saying Brussels dared "to break certain taboos".

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

But to remain globally competitive, Chinese companies also incorporate materials from foreign websites, such as Wikipedia, that address taboos such as the Tiananmen Square massacre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

The ones that survived, the knowledge got built into their ideology and behavior with taboos and other kinds of things.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

At the Harvard College library, the only copy was removed from the shelves “and kept under lock and key with other tabooed books,” Justin Kaplan wrote in “Walt Whitman. A Life.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2022

Despite being one of the world’s favorite food categories — both nutritionally complete and widely considered tasty — meat is also the most tabooed food across many cultures.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021

In many a case researchers have been dismissed for daring to touch tabooed material.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few themes or subjects are tabooed but every subject must be treated in such a way that basic fears, disgusts, and prejudices are not roused.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had mentioned a tabooed subject and I wanted to wait until I knew what he meant.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

In tabooing the standpoint of sport, wherever possible, from these chapters, occasional reference, where it overlaps the interests of the field-naturalist, is inevitable.

From Birds in the Calendar by Frederick G. (Frederick George) Aflalo

Besides these taboos, which were observed by each tribe separately, all the Zulu tribes united in tabooing the name of the king who reigned over the whole nation.

From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

But to guard against the possibility of any visual profanation, Donjalolo had authorized an edict, forever tabooing that rock to foot of man or pinion of fowl.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

But I can't lose a day of this wonder, and fortunately dear Aunt Ann never dreams of tabooing my sight-seeing.

From Against Odds A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch

It is not unusual to find, on such occasions, a special clause, in the conveyance, for their protection, and for the perpetual tabooing of the place of sepulture.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School