transgress

Taboos became the norm, permission to transgress was extended to everyone and “what was once unthinkable became the only way to think about anything.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

It matters less to me that we transgress, that we fall back or fall prey to our lesser angels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2025

That was hardly a fringe view in the progressive ethos of the Bay Area, where he was based, though he still managed to transgress the boundaries on a regular basis.

From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

Rather, institutional principle and precedent predominate in the criminal courts over those who would transgress them.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2022

Heraclitus says, “Not even the sun will transgress his orbit but the Erinyes, the ministers of justice, overtake him.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Consider what Christianity, at its core, actually does: It transgresses and disrupts.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

The Lib Dem leader said "we need to know... where any MP transgresses the rules".

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024

“How do you know who you are when your primal love bond is formed with someone who then transgresses and violates it?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2021

In timeouts and during practices, Brooks has shown his more colorful side when the team transgresses his “non-negotiables” — for example, not playing hard.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2017

And even the wicked who transgresses fulfils God's will in spite of himself, because why?

From Yiddish Tales by Various

"We are eager to hold accountable those who transgressed and abused our Druze people because they are under the protection and responsibility of the state," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025

Battle lines are drawn and immediately transgressed in a play that takes farce out of the bedroom and into administrative corridors and cubicles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

“But if you transgressed . . . by trying to present yourself as somewhat above your station intellectually, then that is the end.”

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024

As in Europe, those persecuted as witches in the colonies were commonly poor and marginalized, but women who transgressed Puritan behavioral norms or who attained wealth or property were also at risk.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

She doubted whether she had not transgressed the duty of woman by woman, in betraying her suspicions of Jane Fairfax’s feelings to Frank Churchill.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

“Already in that early school exercise, he was transgressing all the principles that we knew.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024

The move involved no stepping on necks and no transgressing of hierarchies and Lee had plenty of support, but when it came time to vote on her promotion, she was outmaneuvered.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2024

On the other hand, with “Alice Sadie Celine,” we are not talking about transgressing the long-gone mores of the 1950s and ’60s.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023

The lawsuit also claims that Chop’t did not dispute the fine, which was for transgressing a rule that food service establishments must “operate their premises in such a way as to avoid imminent health hazards.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

But there was an innate dread of notoriety, a sensitive shrinking from remark, that made him actually timid about transgressing whatever he was told to be an ordinance of fashion.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever