verboten

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These explicit endorsements of a previously verboten term sparked its own reaction, led largely by moderate, progressive and even other conservative Christians.

From Salon

Lidl’s chocolate rabbits may be “verboten” in Switzerland, but they are still available for sale in Lidl stores outside of Switzerland, where the court’s ruling would not apply.

From Washington Times

For prominent media figures to admit that the entire system is in profound crisis, and that Trump is a leading symptom of that crisis, is effectively verboten.

From Salon

“In modern legal circles, textualism is ascendant and legislative history has become close to verboten,” he said.

From New York Times

“There’s such a belief in the rule of law, belief in the court, belief in what we’re doing, that that was verboten.”

From Washington Post