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  • past participle of ban.
  • past tense form of ban.
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banned

ADJECTIVE
outlawed
Synonyms


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The practice was banned in 2020, but the bare faces that cutting left behind are still collapsing and eroding today, washing sediment down into reservoirs.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

In the meantime, Norway's capital Oslo banned the glasses in schools this week as the government mulls regulating their use and considers a ban on features that enable facial recognition in public.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

The company said it banned the accounts associated with this effort, shared the information with government partners and developed new detection protocols to reduce the future risk of misuse.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Committee members were concerned that this wasn’t the first time Narbonne had broken rules, with the team being banned in 2019 and then again committed rule violations.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

“Did she want it banned from the old library, too?”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein




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