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Heaven forbid, should you and your husband predecease your mother, what happens to the house she lives in?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

While most jurisdiction forbid medical help to die, assisted dying laws around the world vary.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

You want to believe that there’s really competent, smart people in those jobs, so that, God forbid, if anything happens to you, that’s what you’re gonna encounter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Use forbidwith to, never with from: I forbid you to spit.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

The First Amendment to the US Constitution forbids Congress from "abridging" the freedom of the press.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

The rule forbids trading platforms from executing investors’ orders at prices worse than the best available price quoted on stock exchanges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

International law generally forbids tolling in such waterways.

From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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

The Freiburg curia, however, protested, and in 1867 forbad clergy and candidates to submit to this examination or to seek a dispensation from it.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

In the seventeenth they forbad her all worldly songs; as to religious songs, she abstains from them much more easily.

From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet

Although the diocesan conference next forbad the proclamation of the new Vatican dogma, the bishop threatened excommunicated Egli in Lucerne in 1871, and Geschwind in Starrkirch in 1872, who refused.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

The people were commanded to purify themselves and wash their garments, and Moses forbad any one to approach the mountain.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker

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

In an earlier era, George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, forbade his players to wear their hair long or have beards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

The government forbade any trafficking in Indian antiquities and had given the priest a general concession, authorizing him to catalogue whatever he found and hand it over to the museum.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

But, for the 23-year-old, it is also a passage into a different, freer world - where she can find answers to forbidden questions.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

This wasn’t just because a third term is forbidden by the Constitution.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

Even after New Jersey legalized casinos in the 1970s, sports betting outside Nevada was mostly forbidden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Sam wanted to go up on the wall, but his parents had forbidden it.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

F1 drivers' contracts usually have clauses in them forbidding them from doing 'dangerous sports', such as skiing or scuba diving, although not every driver's contract is the same.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

For all his affability, there was also a more forbidding side to Wood as a businessman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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