Example Sentences
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At the Harvard College library, the only copy was removed from the shelves “and kept under lock and key with other tabooed books,” Justin Kaplan wrote in “Walt Whitman. A Life.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2022
Despite being one of the world’s favorite food categories — both nutritionally complete and widely considered tasty — meat is also the most tabooed food across many cultures.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021
He walks around that tabooed subject more carefully than a cat around a saucer of cream.
From Time Magazine Archive
But at 22 Ellen was already treating this and other tabooed topics with authority.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had mentioned a tabooed subject and I wanted to wait until I knew what he meant.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
