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proscribe

[proh-skrahyb] / proʊˈskraɪb /


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A final deal should proscribe all tolls, mines and forced routes, restoring unrestricted free passage.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

The judge said the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action “certainly does not proscribe any particular classroom speech, or relate at all to curricular choices.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 21, 2026

The government moved to proscribe the group under anti-terror laws after the group claimed responsibility for the June incident.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2025

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe the group last month, calling damage to two military aircraft "disgraceful" and claiming the group had a "long history of unacceptable criminal damage".

From BBC Jul. 5, 2025

Lewis XVI. had fallen because he refused to proscribe the refractory clergy who were accused of spreading discontent.

From Lectures on the French Revolution by Figgis, John Neville

When arguments concludeed, it seemed inevitable that the court would agree with the EEOC, reject the DOJ’s wackadoodle theories, and find that Title VII already proscribes anti-gay employment discrimination.

From Slate Sep. 26, 2017

“The FTC Act proscribes — and the 1st Amendment does not protect — deceptive and misleading advertisements,” U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2015

The state now recognizes those practices as likely to produce false identifications and proscribes them in a law passed with bipartisan support this year.

From New York Times Aug. 10, 2010

The challenged provision, however, proscribes persuasion in a public place, speech that unwilling listeners can walk away from.

From Washington Post

Hence, daily life also proscribes forgetting, in certain connections, and the difference between the popular and the psychoanalytic conception of these errors appears to be removed.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

Most "arrests have been for expressing support for a proscribed organisation", the police said in a post on X.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

In July 2025 it was proscribed as a terrorist group.

From BBC May 28, 2026

She said the group was "particularly encouraged" by the commitment to take action against accounts operated by or on behalf of terrorist organisations proscribed in the UK.

From BBC May 15, 2026

Other groups like the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been proscribed.

From BBC Apr. 23, 2026

Malcolm spoke like a man who was free, like a black man above the laws that proscribed our imagination.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

But stewarding that authority demands humility and faith in the university’s distinct role in cultivating debate—neither proscribing questions nor prescribing answers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

In another post, he retweeted a link to an article on Bari Weiss’ conservative news site, The Free Press, proscribing a “fix” for children using their phones.

From Salon Dec. 10, 2024

But the Home Office and the Foreign Office are said to be at odds over proscribing the IRGC.

From BBC Mar. 31, 2023

Because of constitutional constraints proscribing Japan from providing Ukraine lethal weapons, Sato said Kishida’s trip was “a minimum requirement” for the chair of the G-7.

From Seattle Times Mar. 21, 2023

Soon he was proscribing parts of salutations and signatures and leaving the text untouched.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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