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as in to ban
to make or declare contrary to the law
a push to outlaw smoking in all public buildings
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as in to prohibit
to order not to do or use or to be done or used
fed up with the constant interruptions, the physician has outlawed all cell phone use from his office
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as in bandit
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Recent Examples of outlaw
Melinda Wenner Moyer, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
The order’s provision to outlaw post-Election Day ballot tabulation sets up a clash between Trump and California.
County officials are given nearly a month to process ballots and millions of ballots in the state are counted in the days and weeks after an election.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Robert Daniels, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Still, this adaptation of an O. Henry story tilts all its sympathies toward the outlaw hero the Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter, in a Best Actor–winning role) and away from the pompous white soldier charged with tracking him down.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Utah has become the first U.S. state to outlaw the addition of fluoride to public drinking water.
—Melinda Wenner Moyer, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
The order’s provision to outlaw post-Election Day ballot tabulation sets up a clash between Trump and California.
County officials are given nearly a month to process ballots and millions of ballots in the state are counted in the days and weeks after an election.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
Though set in a coastal town, Lorenz’s film possesses all the hallmarks of a classic Western: the steady lawman (Ciarán Hinds), the helpful neighbor (Niamh Cusack), the outlaw friend (Colm Meaney), and the quick-trigger gunslinger (Jack Gleeson).
—Robert Daniels, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Still, this adaptation of an O. Henry story tilts all its sympathies toward the outlaw hero the Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter, in a Best Actor–winning role) and away from the pompous white soldier charged with tracking him down.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths annually in the U.S. Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California, banned the sale of most tobacco products beginning in 2021.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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Certain artificial dyes used in the U.S. are banned or subject to warning labels in other countries.—
Nicole Brown Chau,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2025
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Louisiana’s legislation might also violate the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits laws that retroactively increase the severity of a person’s criminal sentence, according to several legal scholars.—
Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
10 Apr. 2025
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That goal is also the impetus behind Senate Bill 19, legislation that would prohibit taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for contract lobbyists.—
Patrick Gleason,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Then one day, Moses the Black is struck with the horror of it all and joins a desert monastery, where he's eventually killed by another group of bandits.—
Marco della Cava,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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Instead, her love interest is a charming bandit named Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), cut from the same cloth as the animated Flynn from Disney’s Tangled.—
Josh Spiegel,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Mar. 2025
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To combat such phantoms, Georgian Dream has passed new legislation that criminalizes assembly and protest.—
Anastasiya Zavyalova,
The Conversation,
28 Mar. 2025
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Questions have been raised about whether the Signal chat violated the Espionage Act, a 1917 law criminalizing unauthorized storage or disclosure of sensitive defense information.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2025
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In many areas, religious or cultural norms forbid unrelated men from entering the home.—
Cynthia Tully,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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At first, any expression of Japanese culture was forbidden.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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Learning of such proactivity reminds me of how cutting-edge cybersecurity firms now use AI to go on the offensive against criminals.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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This exemption obligates the IRS to assist law enforcement in the pursuit of criminals and will be used against any migrant who has overstayed for more than 90 days as part of the carveout.—
Benjamin Siegel,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2025
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Basis for the suit to illegalize the union, lawyers explained, is the difference in race between the participants.—
sandiegouniontribune.com,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
28 Feb. 2018
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Rather than negotiating a political agreement, Madrid decided to illegalize Basque political parties allegedly linked with terrorism and to prosecute their leaders.—
Sergi Pardos-Prado,
Washington Post,
28 Oct. 2017
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Chan plays Sergeant Dragon Ma, a police officer battling both pirates and gangsters in Hong Kong, and corruption within his law enforcement ranks.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2025
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The scene in Richard Donner's 1985 adventure comedy The Goonies in which the ragtag group of child explorers finally uncover the mythic pirate ship is one of the film's most unforgettable.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Outlaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outlaw. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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