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Under the rules, the EU will forbid brands from asking influencers to encourage children to buy products or persuade their parents to buy items in commercial content.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Nature's journals forbid AI-generated images and tell referees never to upload a manuscript into an AI system.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

But each time a home is lost, or, God forbid, a loved one, it wears down even the most hardened Malibu resident a little bit more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

That’s not your total return because it doesn’t include appreciation — or, heaven forbid, depreciation — of your home.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

“I going? Am I to watch you flirting with that turnip? Certainly I shan’t go, and I forbid you to go either.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

It also broadly forbids these companies from misleading or deceiving customers and prohibits confidentiality agreements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

But she is trapped by a K-pop system that forbids her from drinking alcohol and having adult relationships.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Legislation forbids the board from creating any additional memorials within the center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"There is a regulatory vacuum because Article 4 of the 1967 treaty only forbids weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons in orbit," said space law expert Laetitia Cesari.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

I cannot carry one arm that the rest do; the scar on my forehead forbids that.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

The Meyer decision, for example, overturned a Nebraska law which forbad teaching non-English languages in public and private schools.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2022

Prudence forbad him to approve, we are told, what kindness would not suffer him to prohibit.

From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Hester Chapone

Hence it seems, as if the Ambassador intended at first to 344 communicate the letter, but that its contents on being decyphered forbad it.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various

In the seventeenth they forbad her all worldly songs; as to religious songs, she abstains from them much more easily.

From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet

Ellis irresistibly wept, but, by a motion of her hand, forbad his approach.

From The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

After the judge forbade them from using certain PowerPoint slides, Halem’s former attorneys decided against presenting an opening statement to jurors, scuttling any possibility of a favorable outcome, Weimortz said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

George Balanchine, the great modernist choreographer, forbade his male dancers to wear long hair or beards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The reason for the separation between the businesses, Corley added, had to do with a defunct local law that forbade the two establishments existing under one umbrella.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

That’s because the rule never forbade criticism of the SEC, but only a defendant’s attempt to deny the allegations or facts in a settlement that it “neither admitted nor denied.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

The happening no sixth grader could avoid, unless her parents forbade her to go.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Between these bands are regions known as forbidden energy gaps, where electrons cannot ordinarily occupy stable states.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

One employee of a nearby store, forbidden from speaking to the press by her employer, guessed she’d seen 30 people taken from the area around this shopping mall alone.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Conversations with others is one thing, and watching movies without headphones is forbidden, but dictating out loud when she could type is an irritating loophole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

He said his parents were deeply religious and so strict that even simple pleasures such as singing were forbidden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

He ruled that the demonstrators had a legal and constitutional right to carry out that march, and that state and local officials were forbidden to interfere.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman

Diehards might find fault with something or other, but, to quote the author, you’d have to possess a “most forbidding, disagreeable countenance” not to be charmed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

But “The Grapes of Wrath” and “East of Eden”—the latter of which Zoe Kazan has now adapted into a thoroughly absorbing series with an astonishing Florence Pugh—are forbidding tomes, for students and teachers alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

F1 drivers' contracts usually have clauses in them forbidding them from doing 'dangerous sports', such as skiing or scuba diving, although not every driver's contract is the same.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

If your niece’s mother lives there rent-free, the trustee should be comfortable that doing so benefits your niece and there should be no rules forbidding it.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

In some places, rules were put in place forbidding the judges from speaking among themselves during auditions, so that one person’s opinion would not cloud the view of another.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell