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forbidding

[fer-bid-ing, fawr-] / fərˈbɪd ɪŋ, fɔr- /


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A government notice said junta chief Min Aung Hlaing ordered releases of more than 7,300 prisoners convicted under legislation forbidding "financing of terrorism" and harbouring or arranging transport for "any terrorist group".

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

But that decision does not prevent Congress from forbidding them by legislation.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026

In this forbidding climate, Genly Ai, an emissary from Terra, another planet, struggles to understand a place where gender roles, modes of communication and beliefs are entirely different from those at home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

They are part of a growing network of “dual-use” facilities—newly built or expanded and modernized over a decade—that dot the Tibetan plateau’s forbidding landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

When the depths and dimensions of icy seas and forbidding jungles were cobbled together from rumors and legends and the wild-eyed ramblings of expeditioners who’d lost half their party exploring them.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs