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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of transcend.

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Examples

  • Guadalupe is certainly up for this new role, as one woman said, The virgin transcends all things.

    La Virgen de Guadalupe - Mother of all Mexico 2006

  • Guadalupe is certainly up for this new role, as one woman said, The virgin transcends all things.

    La Virgen de Guadalupe - Mother of all Mexico 2006

  • Just goes to show that Obama's name transcends not only language, but drunkenness too.

    Tell Us Your Election Night Experiences... 2009

  • That word transcends even divine design. the pro from dover

    Teach the Controversy? Why not Teach ALL Controversies? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • It goes far beyond a formal agreement or treaty, it transcends a word here or there.

    Anwar Al-Sadat - Nobel Lecture 1978

  • But winemaker Christian Roguenant has found a particular talent with this grape - and an expression that transcends noble tinkering to reach delicious territory.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Bonné 2011

  • In the world it is believed that the understanding makes the man; but this is believed because the understanding can be elevated, as was shown above, into the light of heaven, giving man the appearance of being wise; yet so much of the understanding as transcends, that is to say, so much as is not of the love, although it appears to be man's and therefore to determine man's character, is only an appearance.

    Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • The printed word transcends time and space and is a cornerstone of a functional democracy.

    The Daily Evergreen News Feed 2009

  • Basically, Begins was the pinnacle of the superhero movie, but Dark Knight "transcends" (there's that word) the form and demands to be compared to films like The French Connection, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, The Bourne Identity and their ilk.

    The Dark Knight Lou Anders 2008

  • Basically, Begins was the pinnacle of the superhero movie, but Dark Knight "transcends" (there's that word) the form and demands to be compared to films like The French Connection, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, The Bourne Identity and their ilk.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Lou Anders 2008

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