taboo
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Moscow has been warned off, by friend and foe alike, not to break the 81-year long taboo on using nuclear weapons in anger.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
The company is breaking luxury-industry taboo by cutting the price of some existing products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
People are also guided by seemingly arbitrary cultural preferences, such as considering fish either delicacies or taboo.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
It is easy to overshare when you’re trying to break taboos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Along with questioning social and sexual taboos, feminism and acts of aggression, Ono also confronts her own issues with ego from a Buddhist perspective, just as Cage had.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The 35-year-old, from Hebburn, South Tyneside, has now launched She Thrives, an online social community to dispel myths, but also to break down taboos about women's health.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
"It's also a film about the transmission of generational trauma across three generations in a family, and how taboos, unspoken things and secrets travel."
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
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
A rigid rule excluding the work of all artists who had not been dead for 20 years tabooed all moderns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Headquarters order clamped down on gasoline waste, tabooed idling motors, pouring gas without funnels, etc.
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
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
By tabooing all difference of opinion we have eliminated all zest from our intercourse.
From Tea-Table Talk by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
No doubt there was a time when the stage was so profligate that the Puritans were justified in tabooing it altogether.
From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Theophilus Finck
Social reformers and temperance agitators could not make a greater mistake than by following the example of the Puritans and tabooing all pleasures.
From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Theophilus Finck
I inferred rightly that my notoriety was what was tabooing me.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
Vocabulary lists containing taboo
Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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