off-limits

Example Sentences

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But the nuclear site had been off limits until Sunday.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Lawmakers in three states are considering bills to make it harder for buyout firms and other corporate investors to buy law practices, a burgeoning investment strategy that was long off limits for private equity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Not that extremist positions should be off limits, but they ought to be more rigorously addressed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

It is a significant change from the days when most meetings between young people were carefully managed by relatives with an eye to marriage, and any form of premarital romantic relations was off limits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

This had caused trouble for dozens of places: some had been put off limits by the military; some had lost their state or city licenses.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey