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God forbid that comes true, but if it does, this record is proof that Madonna is her discrepancies: She is this, and she is also that.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Want emails or financial records or, heaven forbid, anything from the police?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

If, heaven forbid, something breaks or gets stolen, it will be your responsibility.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

The main reason drivers do not generally do this is that their contracts forbid it.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

“Oh, my, yes. Heaven forbid you be embarrassed! Why, the next thing you know, the men would stop shoveling coal for you!”

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

One 1937 policy, known as St. Paul’s Heights, forbids any building from obstructing views of the cathedral’s dome from vantage points up to 10 miles away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

The RFU stipulates a "zero-tolerance approach" to discrimination and harassment and forbids public comment that could damage the game or the union's reputation.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Every time we go, the owner forbids us to return.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

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

His worship the mayor expressly forbad me to speak of what I knew to anyone in our town, or even to you, for he says it would only trouble you needlessly.

From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Reuter, Fritz

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 Kurtz, J. H.

Among uninhabitable plains, the traveller is struck by the ruins of innumerable castles and villages, monuments of a time when pestilence was either unfelt, or had at least not forbad the residence of mankind.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

For this cause the King was displeased with Thurstine, and forbad him to returne into the Realme.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John

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

She also forbade local police from cooperating with the agency in any operation conducted solely on immigration grounds.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

Lawyers for the Jackson estate realised there was a clause in the settlement with Chandler that forbade the depiction or mention of him in any movie.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

Cape pigeons often darted and flitted around the boat, but the men couldn’t bring themselves to kill the friendly birds, and ancient superstition forbade them from killing the albatross that still followed majestically above.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Proponents say French sugar beet, apple and hazelnut farmers need the insecticides -- forbidden in France since 2018 and 2019, respectively -- to help them compete with their European counterparts.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

But they didn't stop consuming this forbidden content, she continues.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The clients are anonymous and electronic devices are forbidden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

According to the company’s registration statement, he and other top insiders are forbidden to sell, lend them out or borrow against them, among other restrictions, for 366 days after the IPO.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Occasionally, Angie joined us, but most of the time she remained sequestered in her pink room, listening to the music we were forbidden in the rest of the house.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

The cultural chasm between Europeans and Africans presented obstacles to conversion, and a long legacy of church practice forbidding the enslavement of fellow Christians provided grounds to leave slaves in unbelief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

We argued that the government shouldn’t be allowed to punish American citizens while forbidding them from publicly disputing the accusations, aside from grave matters of national security.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

In 1980, justices struck down a law virtually identical to Texas’, forbidding states from placing the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026

Which is apt enough: With this comes the forbidding sense of being at the end of the world with no guardrails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Especially high against me it stood, strange and forbidding, although why this should be I could not think, finally putting it down to my imagination.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya