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There is, in fact, little I can do about bad weather or, heaven forbid, anything worse happening at 35,000 feet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Heaven forbid, should you and your husband predecease your mother, what happens to the house she lives in?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

While most jurisdiction forbid medical help to die, assisted dying laws around the world vary.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Scarier yet, it’s possible that someone—or, heaven forbid, some A.I. detector—might mistake my text for ChatGPT’s.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

“Yes, I do forbid ye; for ye will be a sair fule if ye do.”

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

It is likely to have a limited impact in the month ahead because the law forbids states from purging their voter rolls in the 90 days before an election.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The three media organisations have argued that the ban breaches their rights under the First Amendment, which forbids the government from "abridging" the freedom of the press.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

“The key issue is whether the law truly forbids us from pursuing democratic transition and whether it really defends the Communist Party’s perpetual rule,” Chow, who represented herself, said in her closing statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Orion was under serious development in the United States until the signing of the international treaty that forbids the detonation of nuclear weapons in space.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

That part of the ceremony I forbad, and took particular care during the whole play to observe the conduct of the drama, and give no offence by my own behaviour.

From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various

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

The council of the Bernese government resolved to recall the refractory clergy of the Jura, took their names off the civil register and forbad them to exercise any clerical functions.

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

Father Clement Thibault, Babs’s priest-mentor since childhood, is defrocked for publicly supporting the strikers after the church hierarchy forbade him from taking sides; the priest then begins a separate campaign to expose ecclesiastical misbehavior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

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

Xaro would have sold the crown too—the Thirteen would see that she had a much finer one, he swore—but Dany forbade it.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

It provides a sense of community and the thrill of holding forbidden knowledge.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

I was somewhat uncomfortable with this practice, and Heritage found it embarrassing enough that my boss there once told me I was forbidden to mention “ghostwriting” on my résumé.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

In Australia, these rules are so strict that discussion with outsiders is forbidden even after a trial wraps up.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Gen knows the exact measurements of her salad order and is strictly forbidden from eating any bread.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

Mal was forbidden to fly anywhere except around the garden or across the fields: her great-aunt Leonor would have been horrified had she known how far Mal went.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Well, it's not exactly Mariah Carey demanding baskets of puppies and forbidding eye contact, but Imbruglia was shaken up.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

Odysseus, a star player for the Achaeans, fresh off a stunning victory over rival Troy, embarks on an international tournament against a series of forbidding opponents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Aisha glanced at Ifemelu, nodding ever so slightly, her face blank, almost forbidding in its expressionlessness.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie