taboo

In 2025, Bankrate released a national opinion poll that found money is, in fact, still a taboo subject.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Screen-time while dining is now as taboo as smoking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Moscow has been warned off, by friend and foe alike, not to break the 81-year long taboo on using nuclear weapons in anger.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

“Well, 40 years ago, people didn’t want to talk about a 24-hour sports network either as if competing with ‘The Big Three’ broadcast networks was taboo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Thus, among the thousands of culturally diverse native peoples of Australia, the Americas, and Africa, no universal cultural taboo stood in the way of animal domestication.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The show was groundbreaking - it put the stories of LGBTQ+ people during the HIV/Aids epidemic front and centre, tackled social taboos and gave a voice to those who are often marginalised.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

“I think when you are making a film that is confronting one of the ultimate taboos in cinema, you’re going to have a tough time,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 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

But to remain globally competitive, Chinese companies also incorporate materials from foreign websites, such as Wikipedia, that address taboos such as the Tiananmen Square massacre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

The no kissing is anticlimactic, but some taboos cross oceans, packed tightly into the corners of immigrant baggage, tucked away with packets of masala and memories of home.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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

Result: "Concern about death," says the University of Southern California's Psychologist Herman Feifel, "has been relegated to the tabooed territory heretofore occupied by diseases like tuberculosis and cancer, and the topic of sex."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

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

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

No doubt there was a time when the stage was so profligate that the Puritans were justified in tabooing it altogether.

From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Theophilus Finck

Besides these taboos, which were observed by each tribe separately, all the Zulu tribes united in tabooing the name of the king who reigned over the whole nation.

From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

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