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If, God forbid, Maddie should disappear — if Grande departed public life, as she’s now planning on — there would be a hole in Deena’s life.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

So singular that it all but defies any kind of tea-leaf-reading or, heaven forbid, attempts at replication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

While the Fed’s rules don’t flatly forbid closed-door meetings, they instruct officials to avoid sharing personal policy views with anyone who could profit financially unless those views are already public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

If, heaven forbid, something breaks or gets stolen, it will be your responsibility.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

Use forbidwith to, never with from: I forbid you to spit.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

International law generally forbids tolling in such waterways.

From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026

District Judge Troy L. Nunley issued a preliminary injunction in April that forbids Nexstar — which owns KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles — and Tegna, from combining operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

A super-injunction is a court-mandated gagging order that forbids news outlets from reporting private or sensitive information.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

And eBay forbids fulfilling orders by purchasing items elsewhere at the time of sale and shipping them directly to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

“You needn’t worry. Attorney-client privilege forbids me from telling anyone what you say in here. I just need to know if it’s true.”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

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

Henry VII., who was a great card player, forbad cards to be used except during the Christmas holidays.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various

Among uninhabitable plains, the traveller is struck by the ruins of innumerable castles and villages, monuments of a time when pestilence was either unfelt, or had at least not forbad the residence of mankind.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

For my client forbad me to pursue my inquiries.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

But the chapter refused him obedience, and the States of Holland forbad him to exercise any official function, and under threat of banishment of all Jesuits demanded the immediate return of the archbishop.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

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

In a video posted Wednesday, Transport Minister Said bin Hamood bin Said Al Maawali said that international conventions signed by Oman forbade taking tolls for passage, but that talks were ongoing with the foreign ministry.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

Not long after, adults will follow suit and find themselves relishing the activities they once forbade their children from.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Zafoona murmured, “Oppression is the worst thing in Allah’s eyes. He forbade it not only for himself but also for us.”

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

The statement said Del Naja and Marshall would “be banned from re-entering Singapore” and are forbidden from performing there again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Eyes tear up when unrequited love leads to isolation or forbidden love leads to death.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

He is also forbidden from trying to contact Mountbatten-Windsor directly or indirectly, or approach him or enter Norfolk.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Proponents say French sugar beet, apple and hazelnut farmers need the insecticides -- forbidden in France since 2018 and 2019, respectively -- to help them compete with their European counterparts.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

When I explained to Mami why I came home with a torn uniform and bruises, she made it clear that I was forbidden to fight in school.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Daniels isn’t pleased, informing LSU through his attorney that he “feels profoundly disrespected” and forbidding the school to use his name, image and likeness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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

The rules linking a sequence to a finished organism—biology’s “generative grammar”—remain, he acknowledges, a forbidding problem that may never fully yield.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

We argued that the government shouldn’t be allowed to punish American citizens while forbidding them from publicly disputing the accusations, aside from grave matters of national security.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

“Yeah, that’s what I thought,” she says, holding up a forbidding, long-fingered hand.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black