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transcend

[tran-send] / trænˈsɛnd /


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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

"The Hundred has given us the chance to really transcend what's a difficult and fairly challenging macroeconomic environment and take us in a different direction," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

And I’m thinking, But why do I have to transcend race?

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

"The beauty of Shaun is it transcends borders and cultures because it doesn't rely on the spoken word," said Aardman's Managing Director Sean Clarke.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

But this trend of following individual players transcends merely Messi and Ronaldo.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Bobby thought of himself as being totally aware and equated himself with Bhagwan’s concept of the Nietzschean “Superman” who transcends the constraints of society.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

“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

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

He believed that the Jews had spiritually transcended the need for territory and should seek limited autonomy where they lived.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

The feeling of looking at things with a painful and unwarrantable nakedness was an experience, I learned, that transcended national and racial boundaries.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

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

You’d have to be there, but it was just a magical, transcending moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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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