forbidding
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The New York Times calling it "cold and forbidding", while the Washington Post described it as a "time warp."
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Ms. Clark imbues Hillcrest with eerie metaphoric resonance, making it both forbidding and tenderly familiar.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
In 1980, justices struck down a law virtually identical to Texas’, forbidding states from placing the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026
Which is apt enough: With this comes the forbidding sense of being at the end of the world with no guardrails.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Looking at the Map of Days, even the places that sounded most forbidding evoked in me a strange longing.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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