taboo

Air conditioning, long disdained in France, is "no longer taboo at all", Jehanno said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I want for it not to be taboo to ask, ‘What is the accountability for these women?’

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

"People don't talk about having no friends a lot... I think it's still what people would consider embarrassing or a little taboo," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The company is breaking luxury-industry taboo by cutting the price of some existing products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

“Tell me, what archaic sanitary taboo have I violated? I suspect that it’s some falsification on the part of the inspector.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Along with questioning social and sexual taboos, feminism and acts of aggression, Ono also confronts her own issues with ego from a Buddhist perspective, just as Cage had.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

In appointing Ancelotti, Brazil confronted one of the biggest taboos in their football history: the national team being led by a foreign coach.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

The siblings begin to awaken to the possibility of their liberation, from both the Communist regime and the paralyzing taboos of their aristocratic upbringing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

EU industry chief Stephane Sejourne celebrated the EU nuclear pivot Tuesday saying Brussels dared "to break certain taboos".

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

We don’t know which spirits they prayed to, which festivals they celebrated, or which taboos they observed.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

At the Harvard College library, the only copy was removed from the shelves “and kept under lock and key with other tabooed books,” Justin Kaplan wrote in “Walt Whitman. A Life.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2022

Despite being one of the world’s favorite food categories — both nutritionally complete and widely considered tasty — meat is also the most tabooed food across many cultures.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021

Headquarters order clamped down on gasoline waste, tabooed idling motors, pouring gas without funnels, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

Los Angeles Psychiatrist Hiawatha Harris once dreamed of concentrating in obstetrics but soon found that this was the most tabooed field of all.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had mentioned a tabooed subject and I wanted to wait until I knew what he meant.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

But that's always the way in tabooing societies.

From The British Barbarians by Grant Allen

But I can't lose a day of this wonder, and fortunately dear Aunt Ann never dreams of tabooing my sight-seeing.

From Against Odds A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch

Social reformers and temperance agitators could not make a greater mistake than by following the example of the Puritans and tabooing all pleasures.

From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Theophilus Finck

The tabooing was a less ornamental but more decidedly useful formality, for by it his person was declared sacred and inviolable.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

By tabooing all difference of opinion we have eliminated all zest from our intercourse. 

From Tea-Table Talk by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome