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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

God forbid that comes true, but if it does, this record is proof that Madonna is her discrepancies: She is this, and she is also that.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Curfews forbid meeting her classmates late in the evenings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

If, heaven forbid, something breaks or gets stolen, it will be your responsibility.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

Mother must have felt guilty after the recital, because in the weeks that followed she searched for something else I could do, something Dad wouldn’t forbid.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

International law generally forbids tolling in such waterways.

From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026

For that reason, the law forbids using the new funding simply to maintain existing levels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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

And eBay forbids fulfilling orders by purchasing items elsewhere at the time of sale and shipping them directly to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Orion was under serious development in the United States until the signing of the international treaty that forbids the detonation of nuclear weapons in space.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

The people were commanded to purify themselves and wash their garments, and Moses forbad any one to approach the mountain.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker

The council of the Bernese government resolved to recall the refractory clergy of the Jura, took their names off the civil register and forbad them to exercise any clerical functions.

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

In St. Augustin's time, as we have seen, they positively forbad the Pope's interference with their internal government, and only submitted to it after they had been enfeebled by the irruption of the Vandals.

From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

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

George Balanchine, the great modernist choreographer, forbade his male dancers to wear long hair or 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

Zafoona murmured, “Oppression is the worst thing in Allah’s eyes. He forbade it not only for himself but also for us.”

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

Even after New Jersey legalized casinos in the 1970s, sports betting outside Nevada was mostly forbidden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The band said police detained them after the show, and that an investigation led to the band being forbidden from performing in the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Eyes tear up when unrequited love leads to isolation or forbidden love leads to death.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

He is also forbidden from trying to contact Mountbatten-Windsor directly or indirectly, or approach him or enter Norfolk.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

But these state-based deliberations quite naturally tended to focus on local or regional interpretations of the Constitution’s rather elliptical handling of the forbidden subject.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

On Wednesday, China enacted rules forbidding chatbots designed for companionship from encouraging emotional reliance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

We argued that the government shouldn’t be allowed to punish American citizens while forbidding them from publicly disputing the accusations, aside from grave matters of national security.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

And so, in the darkness and mist, Reynie picked his way alone through the forbidding hills.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart