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

"As soon as we're more open, then fewer people are going to think it's taboo, or that anyone is any less of a man for actually talking about it."

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

The great taboo against touching another’s dæmon was not instinctual but learned, then.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

“I think when you are making a film that is confronting one of the ultimate taboos in cinema, you’re going to have a tough time,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 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

She says teaching CPR and defibrillator use is vital for breaking taboos and tackling inequalities.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

The ones that survived, the knowledge got built into their ideology and behavior with taboos and other kinds of things.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

The wary Hays office tabooed the title, but allowed Twentieth Century to keep the offensive word in the script.

From Time Magazine Archive

Discussion of the island was, ,by mutual consent, tabooed.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

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

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

No doubt there was a time when the stage was so profligate that the Puritans were justified in tabooing it altogether.

From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Theophilus Finck

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

Instead of tabooing our impulses, we must redirect them.

From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann

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

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp