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While most jurisdiction forbid medical help to die, assisted dying laws around the world vary.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Scarier yet, it’s possible that someone—or, heaven forbid, some A.I. detector—might mistake my text for ChatGPT’s.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

If, God forbid, Maddie should disappear — if Grande departed public life, as she’s now planning on — there would be a hole in Deena’s life.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

So singular that it all but defies any kind of tea-leaf-reading or, heaven forbid, attempts at replication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

And he did nothing except to forbid them to enter her courts and when he saw them they did not, but when he did not see them they ran in and out secretly.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

"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

One key statute forbids the erection of any building or structure on federal grounds in the District of Columbia without express permission from Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

District Judge Troy L. Nunley issued a preliminary injunction in April that forbids Nexstar — which owns KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles — and Tegna, from combining operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

A super-injunction is a court-mandated gagging order that forbids news outlets from reporting private or sensitive information.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Farmers nowadays find it difficult to obtain uncontaminated fodder for their milk cows, though the Food and Drug Administration forbids the presence of insecticide residues in milk shipped in interstate commerce.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

Above all, in Italy, a continuity of lineage, of language, of local names, and in part of civilisation and law, forbad the thought that the great Roman people had ceased to be.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church

Practical jokes he never allowed either in himself or others; nor did his humour ever degenerate into mimicry, or amusement at the expense of the absent; delicacy of feeling forbad that.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

An order of the king as head of the church abolished the union of the two state synods in a general synod which had existed since 1849, and forbad all discussion of matters of discipline.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

Honour forbad her to take advantage of this ignorance; but the struggle threw her into agonies of grief.

From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Catherine Crowe

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

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

Mr. Ahamed is sure it would have helped, but the spirit of the times resisted it and the law of the land forbade it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

When he asked for permission to publish articles about the early history of code breaking, the NSA forbade him to do any such thing.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Give them something that’s OK to climb, rather than leaving them with something forbidden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

By BritBox decree, I am forbidden from reviewing it for now.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

A defense of yelling in restaurants: It’s a forbidden behavior in today’s restaurants—but Amanda Albee spoke to chefs who say it massively improved their careers.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

Millicent, the more practical of the pair, wrote “Widow,” a romantic story of forbidden love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

What made the escapades even more exciting was that my mother had forbidden my going to the river.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

Well, it's not exactly Mariah Carey demanding baskets of puppies and forbidding eye contact, but Imbruglia was shaken up.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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

For all his affability, there was also a more forbidding side to Wood as a businessman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Snape had reinstated Umbridge’s old decree forbidding gatherings of three or more students or any unofficial student societies.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling