taboo

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Schulz said it’s important to talk to parents about their finances even when such talks can be uncomfortable or even taboo in your family.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 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

"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

We had been taught that such unions were taboo.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

“There are a number of taboos that have been broken,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

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

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

But sometimes, individual Cherokee took on temporary taboos - maybe to cleanse their spirit, or because they knew, from listening to the spirit world or whatever, that the taboo was important.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

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

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

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

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

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

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