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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

If, God forbid, Maddie should disappear — if Grande departed public life, as she’s now planning on — there would be a hole in Deena’s life.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 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

The United Nations’s chief wants humanity to forbid killer robots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

The Holy Scriptures do not forbid him to suppose as great a Multitude of Systems and as much inhabited, as he pleases.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“When a state offers a method for casting a ballot, the Constitution forbids restricting access to that voting method based on any prohibited ground, including age,” Judge Roger Gregory writes for a unanimous panel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

International law generally forbids tolling in such waterways.

From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026

District Judge Troy L. Nunley issued a preliminary injunction in April that forbids Nexstar — which owns KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles — and Tegna, from combining operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

A super-injunction is a court-mandated gagging order that forbids news outlets from reporting private or sensitive information.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The following year, Mexico forbids further American colonization of Texas and prohibits the importation of more slaves into the territory.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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 late Mr. Charles Dickens, in his will, forbad the wearing of hat-bands at his funeral.

From Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Walter Field

The Grand Council, however, did not allow the contemplated formation of an independent congregation, and in 1824 forbad all “sectarian” assemblies, while the mob raged even more wildly than at Geneva against the “Momiers.”

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

What the Church forbad was forbidden, and when her laws were broken or her wishes not complied with, the culprit had to pay the penalty.

From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various

An order of the king as head of the church abolished the union of the two state synods in a general synod which had existed since 1849, and forbad all discussion of matters of discipline.

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

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

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

“I would not have you give words or time to Lord Hamlet henceforward,” he said in a hard, cold voice that forbade me to defy him again.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

Gen knows the exact measurements of her salad order and is strictly forbidden from eating any bread.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

Millicent, the more practical of the pair, wrote “Widow,” a romantic story of forbidden love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Under local regulations in the region, "it is forbidden to needlessly disturb, attract or pursue a polar bear", which was declared a protected species in Svalbard in 1972.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

She performed forbidden aerial stunts over the airfield when she returned from a mission and got away with it.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Well, it's not exactly Mariah Carey demanding baskets of puppies and forbidding eye contact, but Imbruglia was shaken up.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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

Penelope nodded, for she had once seen a large and forbidding portrait of Admiral Percival Racine Ashton hanging in Lord Fredrick’s taxidermy-filled study.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood