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transcend

[tran-send] / trænˈsɛnd /


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“Football has this power to transcend sports. It becomes an emotional thing,” said Hamlin, who is behind on his goal of raising $66,000 by the end of the month to expand work on the documentary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Macron came to power in 2017 promising to modernise the economy and transcend France's traditional political divide.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Her demonstrable character helped her transcend race and class in ways that few artists can claim.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Patrick: I’d say yes, but Braden Peters, the prominent looksmaxxer better known as Clavicular, told me “these words are just so good that I think it’ll kind of transcend that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

It helped me to see the situation other than through the prism of black and white relations, for if our struggle was to succeed, we had to transcend black and white.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Blow's refusal to compromise on any aspect of the Order of the Sinking Star transcends its core design.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Most importantly, the technology transcends stage gimmick and is essential to telling the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

It indicates a "systemic problem which transcends one rogue doctor and one rogue clinic", according to the British Fertility Society.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Polls show in many cases opposition to data centers transcends political partisanship.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

This makes Dowland’s contribution, like Shakespeare’s, something very different from what had gone before: his work has a universal appeal that transcends its age.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

“The University remained one of the few forces that transcended disparate regions and groups,” Pawel writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

While medieval Iberia and pre-Columbian Mexico were radically different places, the imagination that birthed these beasts reveals shared interests that transcended time, place and culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Tributes have poured in from US presidents across the political spectrum and musicians across all genres, remembering her not just for her award-winning career, but her philanthropy and humble nature that transcended country music.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Charlie has transcended a workhouse childhood to become a person of some culture—his favorite novelist is, ironically enough, that bard of extreme poverty, Charles Dickens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Students from across the country have joined the protests in Delhi, transcending caste, religion and regional identities.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

This year abounded in wild artificial-intelligence fantasies of transcending the human condition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Ada Carrillo, one of the devout who crowed the basilica this week, said she unites all of Mexico, transcending political, geographic and class divides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

"Major international sporting events embody a spirit of unity and dialogue, transcending differences and divisions," said a statement from world cycling's governing body.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025

Crowd, heat, bad quarters, bad fare, bad smells, mosquitoes, and a plague of flies transcending everything within my experience.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly


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