taboo

It is taboo in China to crack jokes about Mao, who died in 1976 and whose drastic policies are blamed by historians for mass starvation and millions of deaths.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

She says "we don't really talk about" gynaecological health as a society so there is a taboo around speaking about symptoms.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Since bunting has practically become a taboo, however, adept bunters fit comfortably in the Rays’ budget, which ranks 27th among MLB’s 30 franchises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The online response inspired her to quit her job and build a digital brand by attacking the workplace taboo of talking about salaries.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

This has gotta be taboo for a Last Friend to say, but I’m not wrong.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

It is easy to overshare when you’re trying to break taboos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

Over the next decade, Hockney continued to break social taboos by celebrating same-sex relationships in his art - often by depicting the quiet, everyday moments of gay domestic life.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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

Mickey Rooney had lived backstage from the time he was two months old, and his approach to tabooed topics was decidedly more worldly and realistic than that of the average boy of his age.

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

Discussion of the island was, ,by mutual consent, tabooed.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

It's the only way to deal with these tabooing chiefs.

From The British Barbarians by Grant Allen

In tabooing the standpoint of sport, wherever possible, from these chapters, occasional reference, where it overlaps the interests of the field-naturalist, is inevitable.

From Birds in the Calendar by Frederick G. (Frederick George) Aflalo

But to guard against the possibility of any visual profanation, Donjalolo had authorized an edict, forever tabooing that rock to foot of man or pinion of fowl.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

I inferred rightly that my notoriety was what was tabooing me.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

It is not unusual to find, on such occasions, a special clause, in the conveyance, for their protection, and for the perpetual tabooing of the place of sepulture.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School