transcending

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Mr. Bennett is potty about footie, and like all mildly deranged fans of the Beautiful Game he sees it as transcending the boundaries of mere sport.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

You’d have to be there, but it was just a magical, transcending moment.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

The human species, Huxley affirms, should embrace transhumanism: “man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.”

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

Johnson’s natural movie star charisma pushes the film past the limits of nonsense and into sheer camp, transcending its dead-on-arrival status to make the film into a burgeoning cult classic.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2025

Crowd, heat, bad quarters, bad fare, bad smells, mosquitoes, and a plague of flies transcending everything within my experience.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly