1
as in falls
to commit an offense
I didn't realize I was transgressing when I told your sister she looked like she had lost weight
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2
as in violates
to fail to keep
don't even think about transgressing the drug laws of that Asian country, for punishments are severe and there's nothing that our government can do to intervene
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Recent Examples of transgresses
But my way of dealing with that is doing something that transgresses death and making something that stays.
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Todd Gilchrist,
IndieWire,
24 June 2026
Engaging in what sociologist Staci Newmahr calls edgework, or risky behavior that transgresses social boundaries with another human, produces intimacy.
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Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
The film transgresses time to show how greed, faith, desire and the hunger for meaning repeat themselves.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2026
Todd Gilchrist,
IndieWire,
24 June 2026
Engaging in what sociologist Staci Newmahr calls edgework, or risky behavior that transgresses social boundaries with another human, produces intimacy.
—
Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
The film transgresses time to show how greed, faith, desire and the hunger for meaning repeat themselves.
—
Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transgresses
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As opposed to the first film, where a good girl falls for a bad boy, the sequel turns the concept upside down, with Pfeiffer playing the bad girl who falls for a good boy.
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Municipal workers are developing a new low-level drinking water connection to supply the city's approximately 7,300 residents, hotels, businesses and the golf course as the lake level falls, Geller added.
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Filing a false immigration claim violates anti-fraud statues, according to DHS General Counsel James Percival, and those who file them should be held accountable, according to a memo from Percival and reviewed by ABC News.
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In 2022, a federal judge ruled that the state law violates Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act.
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The lagoon, which wanders almost the entire length of the garden, adds a swath of blue to this oasis of green.
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In its most scenic moments, the train wanders along the island’s coastline and through rainforest, and sugar cane fields.
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All hell breaks loose at the table and, not so coincidentally, everyone looks to Porsha to diffuse things.
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So when a host gift shows up that breaks the chain of wine bottles, people take notice.
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John DeWitt, the four-star general who oversaw the internment program, in particular, seems to be a forerunner to some of America's worst errors, paranoia, sins.
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God’s likeness, which is our true, spiritual identity, never sins and is never punished.
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Tastes have changed, and honestly what offends people has changed so much now.
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But these arguments, about how free expression is defined, whether art that offends is inherently harmful, and whose sensibilities determine what art gets shown to the public, would recur again and again.
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