as in to prohibit
to order not to do or use or to be done or used
smoking is forbidden throughout the building we forbid you to see him
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Recent Examples of forbid
Many of those racially discriminating practices continued in Kansas City long after the Fair Housing Act of 1968 forbid them.
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J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2025
The weather was bad enough that MassDOT dropped the speed limit on the pike and forbid tandem trucks from the road.
—Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
The order is expected to have little national impact because COVID-19 vaccine mandates have mostly been dropped at schools and colleges across the United States, and many states have passed legislation forbidding such mandates.
—Collin Binkley, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
That access has become contentious, and a federal judge issued a restraining order Saturday temporarily forbidding DOGE’s access to sensitive Treasury data, a case that does not involve the Labor Department.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025
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J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2025
The weather was bad enough that MassDOT dropped the speed limit on the pike and forbid tandem trucks from the road.
—Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
The order is expected to have little national impact because COVID-19 vaccine mandates have mostly been dropped at schools and colleges across the United States, and many states have passed legislation forbidding such mandates.
—Collin Binkley, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
That access has become contentious, and a federal judge issued a restraining order Saturday temporarily forbidding DOGE’s access to sensitive Treasury data, a case that does not involve the Labor Department.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forbid
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More than 90 countries do not have laws mandating equal pay for equal work, while dozens of others prohibit women from working in certain industries, such as construction or manufacturing.—
Meera Senthilingam,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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The city of Fullerton will begin enforcing stricter anti-camping rules, prohibiting homeless individuals from sitting, lying or sleeping in public spaces or storing their property on sidewalks and similar public spaces.—
Jonathan Horwitz,
Orange County Register,
7 Mar. 2025
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A little over five months after his death, and 35 years after he was banned from the game of baseball by then-commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, Pete Rose may be posthumously getting his flowers – from two different angles.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Benjamin Mako Hill, a professor at the University of Washington who co-authored a research paper on the Croatian Wikipedia debacle, told me that contributors without a political agenda were eventually able to wrest control back, banning a small group of Fascist apologists from editing articles.—
Margaret Talbot,
The New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2025
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The lawsuit asks the court to outlaw the medication for anyone under 18, reinstate the in-person appointment requirement, mandate that only doctors can prescribe the pills and limit the ability of retail pharmacies, like CVS and Walgreens, to dispense the medication.—
Lisa Lerer,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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That’s according to one NFL team that officially proposed outlawing the controversial play, which is a style of quarterback sneak frequently run by the Philadelphia Eagles.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Forbid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forbid. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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