verboten

Example Sentences

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IN THE PAST, trailers often relied on the scores of previously released films, but that practice has basically become verboten.

From New York Times

If foreign accents were tolerated, regional accents were verboten.

From Los Angeles Times

On the occasion of getting together for this story, they talked about that verboten subject: politics.

From Seattle Times

Antisemitism felt like it was trending — moving, with bewildering speed, from something verboten to something floating casually around the culture.

From New York Times

These explicit endorsements of a previously verboten term sparked its own reaction, led largely by moderate, progressive and even other conservative Christians.

From Salon