taboo

For decades, the ordeal was a family taboo, something Lin only learned about later in his life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

“I want for it not to be taboo to ask, ‘What is the accountability for these women?’

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

Sceptics initially saw the cloning as "taboo" disruptions of nature, Shoichi Ikeno, head of local diving company Lagoon, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

They compare the conversation around male infertility today to where mental health was a decade or so ago - still taboo but slowly becoming more open.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

So deeply conscious was he of violating dangerous taboo, that he felt that the very air or sky would suddenly speak, commanding him to stop.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

It is easy to overshare when you’re trying to break taboos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Along with questioning social and sexual taboos, feminism and acts of aggression, Ono also confronts her own issues with ego from a Buddhist perspective, just as Cage had.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

In appointing Ancelotti, Brazil confronted one of the biggest taboos in their football history: the national team being led by a foreign coach.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

There are many taboos associated with the college entrance exam in South Korea.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025

He'd broken so many taboos today, leaving the house, standing in the open yard, talking to a stranger.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

In your issue of March 11 you ricochet Mr. Dingell with a footnote for not knowing better and then, 29 pages later, ricochet Superman with the same tabooed shrapnel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mickey Rooney had lived backstage from the time he was two months old, and his approach to tabooed topics was decidedly more worldly and realistic than that of the average boy of his age.

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

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

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

From The British Barbarians by Allen, Grant

But that's always the way in tabooing societies.

From The British Barbarians by Allen, Grant

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 School, A Sexton of the Old

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 Lynch, Lawrence L.