transgression

Example Sentences

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Are you trying to give people some kind of communal moment of transgression?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

Bondi’s latest ethical transgression has not yet made it to court, but it likely will.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

Yet the nature of that transgression means some around the game feel it could spoil the celebrations if a long-awaited Asian world champion is crowned on Monday.

From BBC • May 3, 2025

They would not have an easy voyage home—some of the sailors themselves would steal joints and fragments of the saint, a transgression that, as they believed, caused them to suffer through storms and almost capsize.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024

In any other situation, it would have been considered a bold transgression.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros