proscribe
Example Sentences
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A final deal should proscribe all tolls, mines and forced routes, restoring unrestricted free passage.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
The judge said the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action “certainly does not proscribe any particular classroom speech, or relate at all to curricular choices.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
The High Court has been reviewing the home secretary's decision to proscribe the group and a judgment is expected in the New Year.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper called the incident "disgraceful" when announcing her decision to proscribe the group.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2025
Modern art displays such poverty and frivolity that it well may shrink from putting itself in context with great literature, particularly with Bach's mighty and creative genius, and seek rather to proscribe it.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus
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