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

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

"Sometimes a ban makes things worse. Protesting is a right -- it's like with children, when you forbid something, it becomes even more tempting," one employee remarked to AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 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

The request also asked the judge to forbid Seaver from coming within 1,000 feet of any person or entity connected to She’s Alive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Maybe part of him had been secretly hoping his parents would forbid him to go, would lock him in the attic and keep him as their little boy forever.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The bill forbids selling horses for slaughter or for similar work.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

He cited the Administrative Procedure Act, which forbids abrupt and “arbitrary” changes in federal regulations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

"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

“In his night-shirt he chased the Sister on duty and absolutely forbids anyone at all to go near his bed. Yesterday he got up and went to wash in the coal-box.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

When, however, the imperial pleasure was finally taken, Taou Kwang forbad any further reference to the proposal, saying that he could not “change face.”

From A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade by Charles Reginald Haines

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

The French clergy were so engrossed by the pastime that the Synod of Langres, 1404, forbad it as unclerical.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various

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

Offended and upset, some fans demanded an apology - but the band's record label, forbade the members from issuing a statement.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

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

If one forbade her to sleep beyond dawn, another insisted she remain in bed till noon.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Paul Mackenzie said education was forbidden and modern medicine was "evil"

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

As Li’s novel makes clear, to be young and ambitious in 18th century Europe meant having the fortitude to dream forbidden dreams, against all odds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Out of these materials Milton fashioned a new epic focused on the temptations of forbidden knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

‘BFG,’ she said, ‘there is no frobscottle here and whizzpopping is strictly forbidden!’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

We were travelling with Yemen's pro-government forces, catching glimpses of the Arabian Sea, and forbidding mountain peaks in the distance.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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

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 first stop was Nishuane, the elementary school, an imposing and forbidding structure of dark red brick.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey