taboo

Example Sentences

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Conversations once deemed taboo in the workplace, like mental health and shrinking boundaries between work and personal life, have become priorities for employers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Not until I sat down to write the script that would provide a space for me to express the taboo, the forbidden, the absurd and the terrifying feelings I knew I wasn’t alone in.

From Los Angeles Times

So, could this all really signal the end of the once-widespread taboo about talking about perspiration?

From BBC

"The population is like one big family," he says, "there is less taboo about these issues, and we are an altruistic population, many sperm donors also donate blood."

From BBC

One academic said it has had little effect, and Mrs Bates wants more to be done to break the taboo around donating, and help save children such as Roman.

From BBC