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forbidding

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


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Creators can also set their own personal boundaries—such as forbidding questions about their personal lives.

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Hollywood unions and companies have supported legislation forbidding AI-generated replicas of people without their permission.

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Twenty-seven states have laws or policies forbidding this, but two appellate courts say that’s wrong.

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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.

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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.

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