taboo

While firms in most countries have been able to lift prices accordingly -- albeit to expected anger -- those in Japan have to battle an inherent view that hikes are taboo.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

In a single speech Arnon shattered a taboo which had hung over Thai society for the whole of its modern history.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

A nuclear taboo has proved good for avoiding nuclear war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

In them, the court heard, Silvey had described himself as "extremely open minded" and "obsessed with taboos".

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 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

His rebellious spirit made him violate all the taboos and consequently he always oscillated between moods of intense elation and depression.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

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

Few themes or subjects are tabooed but every subject must be treated in such a way that basic fears, disgusts, and prejudices are not roused.

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

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

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

From The British Barbarians by Grant Allen

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

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

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

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

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