forbidden
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While communication between candidate campaigns and independent committees is forbidden, these rules are commonly circumvented using legal but obvious methods.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
But those same analyses also made clear how speculative the idea was: within general relativity, such a journey is forbidden.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
For Leslie Fiedler, the greatest works of American literature were those that engaged with terrible fears and forbidden desires.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
A tale about forbidden love and Taiwanese food has won the International Booker Prize, becoming the first novel translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the prestigious award.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
And any books on previous impossible tasks were housed in a forbidden section, which you needed special permission to access.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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