transcending

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It's hard to imagine many other snooker players past or present transcending the sport to the extent of rubbing shoulders with royalty.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

This year abounded in wild artificial-intelligence fantasies of transcending the human condition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

The human species, Huxley affirms, should embrace transhumanism: “man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.”

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

Johnson’s natural movie star charisma pushes the film past the limits of nonsense and into sheer camp, transcending its dead-on-arrival status to make the film into a burgeoning cult classic.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2025

Crowd, heat, bad quarters, bad fare, bad smells, mosquitoes, and a plague of flies transcending everything within my experience.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly