prohibited
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All the more interesting is that this comes from a group of men who trusted the people to find and practice what the First Amendment prohibited the government from imposing upon them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
And with phones prohibited on the grounds, there is little information about what’s available in the shops.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Passed in 2010, the law deemed them to be vital water reserves, and so prohibited any damaging commercial activity.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
"Beijing's intention, in short, is to internalise the cross-strait issue, treating it as a domestic matter for China, with foreign intervention prohibited," Mainland Affairs Council spokesman Liang Wen-chieh said Thursday.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Because his own education had been prohibited, his children’s was extremely important to him.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
Vocabulary lists containing prohibited
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 12–15
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The 18th Amendment (1919)
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"Jim Crow Laws"
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