forbid
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That’s not your total return because it doesn’t include appreciation — or, heaven forbid, depreciation — of your home.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Tina Vaughn and Chip Smith, the husband-and-wife owners of Eulalie, an upscale cloth-napkin bistro in Tribeca, also forbid phone use at their restaurant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
While most jurisdiction forbid medical help to die, assisted dying laws around the world vary.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Against the risks of didacticism — or, God forbid, “preachiness” — I’ll take the productive tension of the occasional cliché or bald statement of purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
“I forbid you to go out that way, too I” “Idiota!” the kid sister called back at him with dignity after she had flounced past.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The First Amendment to the US Constitution forbids Congress from "abridging" the freedom of the press.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
"There is a regulatory vacuum because Article 4 of the 1967 treaty only forbids weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons in orbit," said space law expert Laetitia Cesari.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Trump officials say any such favoritism violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a federal law that forbids discrimination in education and was created to fight segregation and its impact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
It also forbids the branch’s Egyptian headquarters or any other bank from transacting with U.S. banks on its behalf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
The Meyer decision, for example, overturned a Nebraska law which forbad teaching non-English languages in public and private schools.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2022
Gregory XVI. in 1835 condemned his writings, and the new Archbishop of Cologne, Droste-Vischering, forbad students at Bonn attending the lectures of Hermesians.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of Thee, and comest Thou to me?
From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Lady Mary Ross
Henry VII., who was a great card player, forbad cards to be used except during the Christmas holidays.
From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various
His Majesty easily imagin'd that the Queen had been surpriz'd; and being justly angry with Bassompierre, forbad him the Court.
After the judge forbade them from using certain PowerPoint slides, Halem’s former attorneys decided against presenting an opening statement to jurors, scuttling any possibility of a favorable outcome, Weimortz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
In an earlier era, George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, forbade his players to wear their hair long or have beards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The reason for the separation between the businesses, Corley added, had to do with a defunct local law that forbade the two establishments existing under one umbrella.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
That’s because the rule never forbade criticism of the SEC, but only a defendant’s attempt to deny the allegations or facts in a settlement that it “neither admitted nor denied.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
I tore my eyes from the spectacle as swiftly as I could, for Christoffels’ expression forbade us to notice anything out of the ordinary.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
It provides a sense of community and the thrill of holding forbidden knowledge.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Give them something that’s OK to climb, rather than leaving them with something forbidden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
This wasn’t just because a third term is forbidden by the Constitution.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
He is also forbidden from trying to contact Mountbatten-Windsor directly or indirectly, or approach him, or enter Norfolk.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The permission slip had clearly stated that students were forbidden to make any purchases.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
F1 drivers' contracts usually have clauses in them forbidding them from doing 'dangerous sports', such as skiing or scuba diving, although not every driver's contract is the same.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Daniels isn’t pleased, informing LSU through his attorney that he “feels profoundly disrespected” and forbidding the school to use his name, image and likeness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
If your niece’s mother lives there rent-free, the trustee should be comfortable that doing so benefits your niece and there should be no rules forbidding it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
The rules linking a sequence to a finished organism—biology’s “generative grammar”—remain, he acknowledges, a forbidding problem that may never fully yield.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The android’s broken face looked more and more forbidding.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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