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Heaven forbid, should you and your husband predecease your mother, what happens to the house she lives in?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

“Also, as a single parent, she was very aware of ‘anything can happen,’ and she wanted us to have a safety net if, God forbid, something happened,” Avery said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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

As an alternative, you can use forbid with an ing word alone: I forbid spitting.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

It is likely to have a limited impact in the month ahead because the law forbids states from purging their voter rolls in the 90 days before an election.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

It forbids the government from "abridging" the freedom of the press - language that courts have traditionally interpreted as preventing the government from discriminating against the media based on the content of their coverage.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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

“Nothing in the prophecy forbids you to come,” said Luxa.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

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 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

Among uninhabitable plains, the traveller is struck by the ruins of innumerable castles and villages, monuments of a time when pestilence was either unfelt, or had at least not forbad the residence of mankind.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

That part of the ceremony I forbad, and took particular care during the whole play to observe the conduct of the drama, and give no offence by my own behaviour.

From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various

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

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

Lawyers for the Jackson estate realised there was a clause in the settlement with Chandler that forbade the depiction or mention of him in any movie.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

Parents forbade their kids from going near him.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

In 1935, when Anderson and the Finnish accompanist Kosti Vehanen began their tour of the Soviet Union, she was warned that music with religious content was strictly forbidden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

He knew -and so must Fin-Kedinn that it is forbidden to speak a dead person’s name for five summers after they die.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

In May the Justice Ministry invoked its new anti-extraterritorial-jurisdiction rules for the first time, forbidding Chinese entities from cooperating with the European Commission’s investigation, under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, into Chinese security-equipment maker Nuctech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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

Nicholas, husband and father, homeowner in England, spoke with a soberness so forbidding that it was almost comical.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie