transgress

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Recent Examples of transgress What emerges in 2025 is a chilling message to everyone about not transgressing proscribed gender roles. Chase Strangio, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025 The holiday is a celebration of subtle LGBTQ+ drama, pleasure and the past transgressed by costumes painstakingly crafted by their creators. Lydia Patrick, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024 Both pay a price for transgressing the boundaries of what’s deemed acceptable for young white women negotiating the new freedoms of mobility and modernity. Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024 Moreover, there was the nagging question of whether the tournament would transgress the NCAA’s increasingly fuzzy, but still formal, prohibition against paying athletes to play. Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for transgress
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Verb
  • The military is now authorized to search and temporarily detain individuals who trespass on the New Mexico National Defense Area, provide medical assistance and implement crowd control measures until law enforcement arrives to take them into custody.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Wheeler was previously convicted of trespassing charges from March 18, 2020 and Nov. 18, 2022.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Immigrant rights advocates argued the administration violated a court order by flying four Venezuelans from Guantanamo to El Salvador.
    Nate Raymond, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • Under these laws, city officials who violate them do not face consequences.
    Jennifer J. Lee, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Rising bond yields Yields on 10-year Treasury bonds typically fall – and their prices rise - as investors flee stocks for the safe haven of Treasuries during economic slowdowns.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Homicide and nonfatal shooting totals fell again in 2023, but the city was roiled by robbery and carjacking crews responsible for an overall uptick in violence.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Rachel Wolf is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital and FOX Business.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Didion broke barriers, refusing to feel remorse over valuing her career above all else and forging a language that can only be described as Didionesque.
    Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • After a 3-month long girls trip along Florida’s Gulf Coast, a wayward pair of endangered North Atlantic right whales known as Curlew and Koala have finally wandered back to the Atlantic Ocean.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Alberta is skeptical… until Hetty points out how Pete has been wandering and dating up a storm, was secretly in the mafia and punched Thor in the face after the Viking slept with Carol.
    Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 24 Apr. 2025

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“Transgress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transgress. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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