proscribe

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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 High Court has been reviewing the home secretary's decision to proscribe the group and a judgment is expected in the New Year.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

It comes as the home secretary is understood to be preparing a written statement to put before Parliament on Monday to proscribe the group, effectively branding it a terrorist organisation.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2025

The government said an order will be introduced in Parliament to proscribe the group under the Terrorism Act.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

Nor would I now proscribe Germanic Art, Their one surviving claim to lasting glory, Or bar Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, Mozart— Strauss is another story.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir