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"It describes the reality of the situation and I think that's important both for parents to accept what happened but also for us to break the stigma and taboo around this particular loss," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

In 2025, Bankrate released a national opinion poll that found money is, in fact, still a taboo subject.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Although some might consider it taboo to steal from a church, he said, when the price of a good rises high enough, people are more likely to take risks or ignore their own moral compass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Well, that is the long story of how the foreigner from Benwick stole Queen Guenever’s love, of how he left her for his God and finally returned in spite of the taboo.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

“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

The siblings begin to awaken to the possibility of their liberation, from both the Communist regime and the paralyzing taboos of their aristocratic upbringing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 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 no kissing is anticlimactic, but some taboos cross oceans, packed tightly into the corners of immigrant baggage, tucked away with packets of masala and memories of home.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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

Mickey Rooney had lived backstage from the time he was two months old, and his approach to tabooed topics was decidedly more worldly and realistic than that of the average boy of his age.

From Time Magazine Archive

Discussion of the island was, ,by mutual consent, tabooed.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

Instead of tabooing our impulses, we must redirect them.

From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann

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

I inferred rightly that my notoriety was what was tabooing me.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

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

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