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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

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

But it sets no quotas and doesn’t forbid the recruitment of “white and Asian men already trained in the field.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The United Nations’s chief wants humanity to forbid killer robots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Antmoos, Eupeithes’ son, made answer: “Telemakhos, no doubt the gods themselves are teaching you this high and mighty manner. Zeus forbid you should be king in Ithaka, though you are eligible as your father’s son.”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The department has long had a policy that forbids retaliation against officers who report misconduct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Some of those strikes could violate international law, which forbids attacking civilian infrastructure.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

Washington has vehemently opposed Tehran's desire to charge tolls in the strait, which international law generally forbids.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

But he cannot be deported due to a 1971 law that forbids the removal of a small group of Commonwealth citizens who arrived in the UK more than 50 years ago.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Well, I thought, if I have not asked, it is because I have not dared; there is a look about you that is quelling, and your manner forbids such talk.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

William at the same time forbad the English from going to Rome, and prohibited them acknowledging any other pope than him whom he should approve.

From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou

In St. Augustin's time, as we have seen, they positively forbad the Pope's interference with their internal government, and only submitted to it after they had been enfeebled by the irruption of the Vandals.

From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

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

Gregory XVI. in 1835 condemned his writings, and the new Archbishop of Cologne, Droste-Vischering, forbad students at Bonn attending the lectures of Hermesians.

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

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

When the Greek soldiers at Aulis came to get Iphigenia where she was waiting for the summons to death, her mother beside her, she forbade Clytemnestra to go with her to the altar.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

A defense of yelling in restaurants: It’s a forbidden behavior in today’s restaurants—but Amanda Albee spoke to chefs who say it massively improved their careers.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

“They haven’t forbidden me from continuing, but they’ve made it clear it’s in my best interests not to,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The band said police detained them after the show, and that an investigation led to the band being forbidden from performing in the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

And any books on previous impossible tasks were housed in a forbidden section, which you needed special permission to access.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

The New York Times calling it "cold and forbidding", while the Washington Post described it as a "time warp."

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

They turned and passed under the low forbidding arch.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien