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transcend

[tran-send] / trænˈsɛnd /


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“Average artists sort of get forgotten but iconic artists transcend time and place.”

From Los Angeles Times

The album is meant as a "decolonial plea and a project for unity, where music plays an essential role because it transcends borders."

From Barron's

Stuffed cabbages, for example, are a hearty delicacy that transcends geographical borders.

From Salon

As music “that transcended enmities to forge a connection between all the people born of this land,” Vargas Llosa writes, channeling Toño’s enthusiasm, the vals is the exemplary art form of a “mongrel nation.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But she is also someone who transcends her sport, a 22-year-old global superstar with a bank balance to make your eyes water.

From BBC