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"God forbid we wake up the prime minister and he says, 'Wake up the entire IDF immediately, scramble the air force!'" he told Israel's right-wing Channel 14 television network.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Against the risks of didacticism — or, God forbid, “preachiness” — I’ll take the productive tension of the occasional cliché or bald statement of purpose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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

And he did nothing except to forbid them to enter her courts and when he saw them they did not, but when he did not see them they ran in and out secretly.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

The First Amendment to the US Constitution forbids Congress from "abridging" the freedom of the press.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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

“Nothing in the prophecy forbids you to come,” said Luxa.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

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

The people were commanded to purify themselves and wash their garments, and Moses forbad any one to approach the mountain.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker

His Majesty easily imagin'd that the Queen had been surpriz'd; and being justly angry with Bassompierre, forbad him the Court.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

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

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

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various

Yet he is so bad at ABS challenges that manager Dave Roberts forbade Pages from challenging pitches after his unsuccessful challenge in the NL Division Series opener Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

This neutrality was legally defined by the Hague Convention of 1907, which forbade Switzerland supplying weapons to countries at war.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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

I was still allowed to go to church events, but he forbade me from doing anything related to the movement.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

Gender segregation is standard practice for many Orthodox Jews but is forbidden in public places by the government of socially liberal Tel Aviv.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 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

Set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland it was a story of cross-community forbidden love between a young Catholic teacher and a married Protestant barrister.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

The Baudelaire children listened to his heavy footsteps go up the stairs to the tower they were forbidden to enter.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

These films’ icy, forbidding majesty invites re-watch after re-watch; I’ve been cueing up “Barry Lyndon” every couple of years for four decades, and it always lands differently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

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

Grandma had explained to us that by age six or eight, we would be separated by very strict lines forbidding us to ever speak to each other again, except if absolutely necessary.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals