forbidden
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Reporters are forbidden by Hezbollah from freely accessing the group's stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs, although the organisation does organise press trips.
From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026
Even in its marketing materials, Cadillac was forbidden from using the term F1.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
Except in very restricted circumstances, slurry spreading is forbidden in Northern Ireland from 15 October to the following 31 January.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
The shift in attitude hasn’t been firmly diagrammed; instead, what’s going on here is mostly subconscious, like a collective unlocking of forbidden territory.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026
The same year, Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus was placed on the Index of forbidden books.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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