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transcends

  • present tense form of transcend (3rd person singular).

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September 8, 2010, Prague Music Festival Transcends Genre Strings of Autumn The jazz pianist Brad Mehldau will be one of the performers at the Strings of Autumn festival in Prague.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2010

These wounds are more precious than ghastly; Time presses her lips to each scar, While she chants of that glory which vastly Transcends all the horrors of war.

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

It is the Shadow or Image in the Physical Universe of that Personality which Transcends Time and Space.

From Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall by Klein, Sydney T.

The words we read May be a spiritual deed Excelling any fleshly one, As much as the celestial sun Transcends a bonfire, made to throw A light upon some raree-show.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram

There needs must be misunderstandings, dear; For love is more than the much-written word,— Transcends it, as the home-flight of a bird Is distanced by the sun.

From His Lady of the Sonnets by Norwood, Robert W.