transcended

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Pope Leo’s encyclical insists that humanity itself can’t be transcended.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

For the rest of the world, the Colombian-born superstar became the torchbearer for a globally-minded groove, which transcended nation and language in songs like “Whenever, Wherever” and “Hips Don’t Lie.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

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 • Feb. 20, 2026

For Obama, the moment was personal, but his remarks deliberately transcended it.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

One final and all-important piece of the Jeffersonian vision transcended the troubling particularities of domestic politics altogether.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis