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What does transcend mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) to pass beyond the limits of something.
  2. (transitive) to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
  3. (obsolete) To climb; to mount.
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It is what Buddhists and various other doctrines aim to sever in an effort to transcend samsaric rebirth and needless suffering.
In an effort to transcend the dodgy sound quality and high prices of bootlegs, the band has recorded every concert over the past three years.
You cannot typecast her and that's what makes her music transcend all geographical and age barriers.
For Hopkins and his colleagues, neither anonymity nor any appeal to an authority that would transcend personal testimony precludes univocality.
But, like Jim Isermann's mind-bending geometric rug works, Leachman's paintings transcend the usual categories.
Societies also have sacralized their histories in order to create the illusion that they, too, can transcend the passage of time.

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