forbidding

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Mr. Kempt, who worked as a criminal lawyer in the Arctic for almost two decades, conjures this forbidding landscape and its residents with artful authority.

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Creators can also set their own personal boundaries—such as forbidding questions about their personal lives.

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Hollywood unions and companies have supported legislation forbidding AI-generated replicas of people without their permission.

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Twenty-seven states have laws or policies forbidding this, but two appellate courts say that’s wrong.

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Now the loner who rarely leaves his house is a bearded traveler making his way across a forbidding Tolkien-on-acid landscape.

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