Sample Sentences for
transcend
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    I learned to transcend the biases of my upbringing.
    transcend = move beyond
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    Her deficiencies were knit up with a passionate energy that transcended and justified them.  (source)
    transcended = went beyond
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    Henri believes that the strength of my mind will eventually transcend that of my body.†  (source)
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    We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs.†  (source)
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    And the things he was saying in his final months on earth seemed to transcend all religious differences.†  (source)
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    A good hiding transcends the divides of age.†  (source)
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    In some aspects of life in the Deep South, football was slowly transcending race.†  (source)
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    He whose wisdom transcendeth all made the heavens, and gave them their guides, so that every part on every part doth shine, equally distributing the light.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She transcendeth" in older English, today we say "She transcends."
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    They suggested rejuvenation, pain overcome and transcended, endless love.†  (source)
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    My love, which I had always believed could transcend the physical, had failed, too—failed with Ty, failed with my children and Rose's, failed, in a bizarre way, with Daddy, who in his fashion loved Caroline and Rose but not me, failed with Jess Clark, and now had failed with Rose herself, who clearly understood how to reach past me, to put me aside, to take what she wanted and be glad of it.†  (source)
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    Did he say organic law transcends man's law?†  (source)
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    The screen here is a barrier, and the hand is transcending it.†  (source)
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    He gets this look in his eye like he's transcended the yard, the neighborhood, the world.†  (source)
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