transcend
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Green party leader Zack Polanski said: "There are moments in life such as this sad time that transcend politics and I join the whole country in sending condolences."
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Gaete said that while young people don't have visceral memories of 9/11 like his father does, "I think it can transcend generations."
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
He executed the system, but couldn’t transcend it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Her demonstrable character helped her transcend race and class in ways that few artists can claim.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Part of me wants us to transcend in the same way.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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“Being Alive” transcends its limitations through the kinetic connection of the cast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Polls show in many cases opposition to data centers transcends political partisanship.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
Beckham transcends clubs, generations and even football itself.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Norway might have quality in their ranks, but nobody else transcends the sport like Haaland.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Their line these days is that great art transcends gender.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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“The University remained one of the few forces that transcended disparate regions and groups,” Pawel writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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Feliz Solomon and Shoshanna Solomon report on how a movement that views its mission as transcending secular laws is testing the limits of Israel’s pro-settler government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Students from across the country have joined the protests in Delhi, transcending caste, religion and regional identities.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
It is a rivalry that has defined the last two decades of football, transcending clubs, countries and competitions to reshape how the game has been played, consumed and debated across the world.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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
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