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And that is — or was, I guess? — formerly maybe more taboo.

"It's not taboo to be British, we should be proud to be British."

From BBC

She has visited women's refuges, challenged the taboos surrounding domestic abuse and at a reception for International Women's Day held up stones that in 1914 been thrown by suffragettes to break windows in Buckingham Palace.

From BBC

And it’s also the perfect encapsulation of an emerging culinary-adjacent dichotomy: Human breast milk consumption is more visible than ever, but consuming the actual stuff still feels pretty taboo.

From Salon

That, however, is the conclusion of virtually all of American journalism, because there is a deep-seated taboo that has become all the stronger for being tacitly accepted.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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