transgression
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The result is a devastating work of scholarship that commits the ultimate transgression of failing to include the trigger warnings so cherished by the targets of the author’s indictment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
A second transgression for Van der Mescht on 50 minutes, when he went high on a dipping Boeta Chamberlain, earned a second yellow and a 20-minute red to give a second window for Red Bulls.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025
Bondi’s latest ethical transgression has not yet made it to court, but it likely will.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 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
She tried to explain that the documentary was necessary for her to explore past-life transgressions, but he said it was March Madness and past-life transgression didn’t happen during college basketball season.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing transgression
The Giver
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Power Prefix: trans-
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