transgress

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Recent Examples of transgress The news comes just a month after final court approval of the House v. NCAA settlement, a landmark agreement that will, for the first time, permit schools to directly compensate athletes without transgressing the governing body’s bylaws. Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 2 July 2025 So judges are not giving out political decisions but are acting because people transgress the law. Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2025 Failing to notify Congress before making major changes to the agency may have transgressed the Administrative Procedures Act, and freezing money appropriated by Congress for foreign aid could be in violation of the Impoundment Control Act. Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025 From the beginning, alongside the rules for building in the style of the ancients, Renaissance architects set forth rules for transgressing them. Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for transgress
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transgress
Verb
  • During the 2022 incident, an unknown person motioned toward Newton to arrest Mitchell for trespassing.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Denver7 reported that authorities had received three reports of a suspicious person trespassing on private properties along State Highway 103 this week, including two properties on Peaceful Valley Lane in Idaho Springs on Monday.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The president of the European Commission highlighted that in just the last two weeks, Russian drones and warplanes have violated the airspace of six European nations, scrambling jets, grounding commercial flights and posing a direct threat to EU citizens.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Lawsuits filed in recent days claim the federal government is overstepping its authority and violating constitutional protections.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Zay Flowers, who finished with a receiving line of 5-for-72, fell a yard short of a long TD on a 56-yard gain.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • City administrator echoes points other municipalities have stated Brown presented a series of slides and data pieces that, among other facts, showed the city has lagged further behind in terms of property revenue increases falling short of 3% inflation on existing services on average.
    Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The therapy works by breaking a cycle.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Isiah Pacheco had his longest carry this season — and broke two tackles to do it.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The southernmost individual on record lives in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro, just 200 kilometers from Mexico City, while the northernmost populations wander the Arctic coasts in northern Canada and Alaska.
    Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The mind could wander briefly about the Giants riding a two-game winning streak into a Thursday Night Football matchup with the Eagles, equipped to knock off their tormentors who suddenly look vulnerable.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Transgress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transgress. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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