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So singular that it all but defies any kind of tea-leaf-reading or, heaven forbid, attempts at replication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

God forbid that comes true, but if it does, this record is proof that Madonna is her discrepancies: She is this, and she is also that.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Curfews forbid meeting her classmates late in the evenings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

If, heaven forbid, something breaks or gets stolen, it will be your responsibility.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

Heaven forbid that the clothes had a wrinkle.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

Some of those strikes could violate international law, which forbids attacking civilian infrastructure.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

One 1937 policy, known as St. Paul’s Heights, forbids any building from obstructing views of the cathedral’s dome from vantage points up to 10 miles away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

It forbids having soldiers “quartered in any house ... in time of peace.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

Following the Leeds case, the EFL introduced rule 127, which specifically forbids any attempt to watch your opponents in training in the days leading up the game.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

Orion was under serious development in the United States until the signing of the international treaty that forbids the detonation of nuclear weapons in space.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

His Majesty easily imagin'd that the Queen had been surpriz'd; and being justly angry with Bassompierre, forbad him the Court.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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 Kurtz, J. H.

Honour forbad her to take advantage of this ignorance; but the struggle threw her into agonies of grief.

From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Crowe, Catherine

The Grand Council, however, did not allow the contemplated formation of an independent congregation, and in 1824 forbad all “sectarian” assemblies, while the mob raged even more wildly than at Geneva against the “Momiers.”

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

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

That’s because the rule never forbade criticism of the SEC, but only a defendant’s attempt to deny the allegations or facts in a settlement that it “neither admitted nor denied.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

She also forbade local police from cooperating with the agency in any operation conducted solely on immigration grounds.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

She forbade Gláucia from any more involvement in modelling and cut ties with Brunel's network.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

She pleaded to meet Elisha at the docks; but Mrs. Walter forbade it.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Eyes tear up when unrequited love leads to isolation or forbidden love leads to death.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

But they didn't stop consuming this forbidden content, she continues.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

These organizations aim to detect dissent and prevent students from reading forbidden books or listening to banned songs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

The Empire State Building has an observation deck open to the public that offers stunning views of New York, but access to higher points is forbidden.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

“I am forbidden to sing water monster songs,” Wind Being said.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

The rules linking a sequence to a finished organism—biology’s “generative grammar”—remain, he acknowledges, a forbidding problem that may never fully yield.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The New York Times calling it "cold and forbidding", while the Washington Post described it as a "time warp."

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

In 1980, justices struck down a law virtually identical to Texas’, forbidding states from placing the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026

British naval blockades helped defeat Napoleon, who in turn had tried to hurt British merchants by forbidding their products from entering Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

We stood and looked at the house, arrived but uncertain how to proceed, and it looked back at us neither inviting nor forbidding.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya