transcend
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“Brigadoon” manages to transcend time, but this take on “Flower Drum Song” falters between eras.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
But some things do transcend borders - like the need for gossip.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026
People have wildly different views on Israel, for example, but in the big tent there are other issues that are larger, that transcend that.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
“Any entity capable of causing the universe,” says narrator Stephen Meyer, a philosopher of science, “must be external to, or separate from, the universe itself. It must . . . transcend time and space.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Part of me wants us to transcend in the same way.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
Vocabulary lists containing transcend
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