transgression
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When it comes to prisons, there is very serious harm done by our unquestioned acceptance of carcerality and punishment as the main way of dealing with social transgression.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
"These attacks represent a dangerous escalation and an unacceptable transgression," the UAE's foreign ministry said, adding that the country reserves the "right to respond".
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
His pairing of white socks and yellow Crocs stood out as a particular stylistic transgression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
While the celebrities in these clothes aren’t explicitly transgressive figures, their presence in this world of high status is in a sense a form of transgression.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025
Sometimes I play with the fantasy that I am a princess who, in penance for some tiny transgression, has undertaken to feed each of her subjects by hand.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Platner’s transgressions were part of his transgressive appeal.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The potentially reimbursed penalties are for transgressions including failure to file penalties, failure to pay penalties and failure to make estimated tax payments, she wrote.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
If it had not been such an extraordinary case, no one would have cared or noticed Hill’s transgressions, Busbee said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
On AMC’s “Mad Men” we watched her, as Sally Draper, turn from an adorable little girl to an angsty youth, well aware of her father’s transgressions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
Before the terrible price was exacted for their transgressions.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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