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  • present participle of ban.
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banning

[ban-ing] / ˈbæn ɪŋ /


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Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill banning third-party brokers from listing and selling tee time reservations at publicly owned golf courses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

"Next year it'll be banning something else relatively small...until we're all just eating, you know, chicken nuggets, and we'll have no culinary heritage whatsoever."

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The industry believes Bessent doesn’t fully support banning exports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Security Council to consider narrow agreements banning the use of AI for certain tasks, including creating biological weapons.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

He had tried to communicate that the national interest did not lie in simply continuing atomic bomb work, and even suggested banning atomic weapons by international convention “just like poison gases after the last war.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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