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“Football has this power to transcend sports. It becomes an emotional thing,” said Hamlin, who is behind on his goal of raising $66,000 by the end of the month to expand work on the documentary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

"I really wanted to try to transcend the car racing," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Her demonstrable character helped her transcend race and class in ways that few artists can claim.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Patrick: I’d say yes, but Braden Peters, the prominent looksmaxxer better known as Clavicular, told me “these words are just so good that I think it’ll kind of transcend that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

And his efforts to ignore it, transcend it, seemed to work only when he spent his days looking for whatever was light-hearted and without grave consequences.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Blow's refusal to compromise on any aspect of the Order of the Sinking Star transcends its core design.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

“I think this film transcends the political thing,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Being Alive” transcends its limitations through the kinetic connection of the cast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The ability to make a viewer truly feel as though they are witnessing something that transcends time, something that has always existed, is a very rare and special one.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Ashoke, the name of an emperor, means “he who transcends grief.”

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Tickets to events featuring him are often sold out, applications to darting academies are reported to be at an all-time high and the Briton has transcended the sport.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

While Loretta Lynn, Bobbie Gentry and Jeannie C. Riley began to change that image in the 1960s, Ms. Parton transcended countrypolitan Nashville by embracing her rural heritage, not smoothing it out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Smith Jr. came to San Diego as a fearsome linebacker who made two Pro Bowls, yet he transcended football through his infectious personality and devotion to his adopted city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Charlie has transcended a workhouse childhood to become a person of some culture—his favorite novelist is, ironically enough, that bard of extreme poverty, Charles Dickens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

There was something in her bearing that transcended her soft voice and diminutive stature.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Students from across the country have joined the protests in Delhi, transcending caste, religion and regional identities.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

The “Moneyball” approach, detailed in a 2003 book, led to widespread adoption of data-driven decision-making across various industries, transcending sports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

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

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

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