transgression

Example Sentences

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Are you trying to give people some kind of communal moment of transgression?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

A second transgression for Van der Mescht on 50 minutes, when he went high on a dipping Boeta Chamberlain, earned a second yellow and a 20-minute red to give a second window for Red Bulls.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

Was he trying to assuage his guilt for some transgression?

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

Bondi’s latest ethical transgression has not yet made it to court, but it likely will.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

Most of all, he was doing the spiritual work to cleanse his transgression.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel