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Meanings of taboo in English

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      Legislation meant politics -and in royal terms politics was simply taboo.
      News.com.au
      2
      But we must at least break the taboo and start the debate.
      The Guardian
      3
      Infrastructure costs money but he has made a taboo of public borrowing.
      The Guardian
      4
      When the taboo ended in the Trailheader nest, a second crisis arose.
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      5
      Others actively practised public humiliation. I thank Condren for breaking a taboo.
      The Irish Times
      6
      But sometimes a taboo is too great to even bear looking at.
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      7
      Here she bathes in the taboo pool and plucks the taboo flowers.
      The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
      8
      Yet Britain is instinctively collectivist, enveloped in prejudice, religion, taboo and prohibition.
      The Guardian
      9
      Expanded oil drilling has been a political taboo in environmentally conscious California.
      Reuters
      10
      But miscarriage and pregnancy loss is still a taboo subject I feel.
      Independent.ie
      11
      Nothing short of a political earthquake that has shattered a post-war taboo.
      The Irish Times
      12
      The words blind and blindness were taboo at home during his childhood.
      The Irish Times
      13
      We're happy to talk about sex, but money is the last taboo.
      The Irish Times
      14
      In this culture, menstruation is totally taboo and viewed as way gross.
      Feminist dot com
      15
      Yet the practice of co-sleeping invites a distinction in the primal taboo.
      The new yorker
      16
      It deals with a bodily function that is somewhat taboo, she said.
      News.com.au
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