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"Jane doesn't want some other woman, if God forbid this happens to them, to be left on their own, thrown overboard like she was."

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

But each time a home is lost, or, God forbid, a loved one, it wears down even the most hardened Malibu resident a little bit more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

That’s not your total return because it doesn’t include appreciation — or, heaven forbid, depreciation — of your home.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The sanctions would forbid most transactions with the ICC after a grace period of six to seven months, according to documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal and U.S. officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

"I forbid you to leave this house again. You are still my child, Hannie."

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

It also broadly forbids these companies from misleading or deceiving customers and prohibits confidentiality agreements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

It forbids the government from "abridging" the freedom of the press - language that courts have traditionally interpreted as preventing the government from discriminating against the media based on the content of their coverage.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

"There is a regulatory vacuum because Article 4 of the 1967 treaty only forbids weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons in orbit," said space law expert Laetitia Cesari.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

“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

Well, I thought, if I have not asked, it is because I have not dared; there is a look about you that is quelling, and your manner forbids such talk.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

When, however, the imperial pleasure was finally taken, Taou Kwang forbad any further reference to the proposal, saying that he could not “change face.”

From A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade by Charles Reginald Haines

His worship the mayor expressly forbad me to speak of what I knew to anyone in our town, or even to you, for he says it would only trouble you needlessly.

From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Fritz Reuter

Although the diocesan conference next forbad the proclamation of the new Vatican dogma, the bishop threatened excommunicated Egli in Lucerne in 1871, and Geschwind in Starrkirch in 1872, who refused.

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

But the chapter refused him obedience, and the States of Holland forbad him to exercise any official function, and under threat of banishment of all Jesuits demanded the immediate return of the archbishop.

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

Yet he is so bad at ABS challenges that manager Dave Roberts forbade Pages from challenging pitches after his unsuccessful challenge in the NL Division Series opener Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

But there were accusations from some BBC staff that Wilcox, who was her boss as well as her husband, was furthering her career, pointing out that BBC rules forbade married couples working together.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

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

The law forbade taking any of the shards, which seemed particularly absurd, considering they were smack in the middle of a bomb and missile range, bound to be hit and destroyed eventually.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

When exposed to sufficiently strong light fields, electrons crossed the forbidden energy gap with a transition probability reaching 100 percent.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

Out of these materials Milton fashioned a new epic focused on the temptations of forbidden knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

He said his parents were deeply religious and so strict that even simple pleasures such as singing were forbidden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland it was a story of cross-community forbidden love between a young Catholic teacher and a married Protestant barrister.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Even though the doctor kept their secret, fire was still forbidden.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Diehards might find fault with something or other, but, to quote the author, you’d have to possess a “most forbidding, disagreeable countenance” not to be charmed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

We were travelling with Yemen's pro-government forces, catching glimpses of the Arabian Sea, and forbidding mountain peaks in the distance.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

A forbidding housing market is pushing many home buyers to bank on their parents for help.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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

Low, overcast skies made the forests as forbidding as he remembered them.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen