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Heaven forbid, should you and your husband predecease your mother, what happens to the house she lives in?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

While most jurisdiction forbid medical help to die, assisted dying laws around the world vary.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Scarier yet, it’s possible that someone—or, heaven forbid, some A.I. detector—might mistake my text for ChatGPT’s.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

But it sets no quotas and doesn’t forbid the recruitment of “white and Asian men already trained in the field.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Even worse, he knew his mother would forbid blues-playing of any kind.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

The First Amendment to the US Constitution forbids Congress from "abridging" the freedom of the press.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

International law generally forbids tolling in such waterways.

From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026

The department has long had a policy that forbids retaliation against officers who report misconduct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

He forbids email after 5:30 p.m., mandates 90-minute midday breaks and pays wages 20% higher than the industry average.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

I cannot carry one arm that the rest do; the scar on my forehead forbids that.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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 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

In the seventeenth they forbad her all worldly songs; as to religious songs, she abstains from them much more easily.

From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet

Practical jokes he never allowed either in himself or others; nor did his humour ever degenerate into mimicry, or amusement at the expense of the absent; delicacy of feeling forbad that.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

The Freiburg curia, however, protested, and in 1867 forbad clergy and candidates to submit to this examination or to seek a dispensation from it.

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

It was a time of deep-rooted mistrust in policing and a street code that forbade snitching to authorities.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

After the judge forbade them from using certain PowerPoint slides, Halem’s former attorneys decided against presenting an opening statement to jurors, scuttling any possibility of a favorable outcome, Weimortz said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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

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

The laws of Ghalas-at forbade the making of weapons by women of the tribe, so I went out to search for any that might have been left behind.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

I was somewhat uncomfortable with this practice, and Heritage found it embarrassing enough that my boss there once told me I was forbidden to mention “ghostwriting” on my résumé.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

But, for the 23-year-old, it is also a passage into a different, freer world - where she can find answers to forbidden questions.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

A defense of yelling in restaurants: It’s a forbidden behavior in today’s restaurants—but Amanda Albee spoke to chefs who say it massively improved their careers.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

Gen knows the exact measurements of her salad order and is strictly forbidden from eating any bread.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

It was forbidden in his home, and he appreciated it as though it were his own private discovery.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

F1 drivers' contracts usually have clauses in them forbidding them from doing 'dangerous sports', such as skiing or scuba diving, although not every driver's contract is the same.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Daniels isn’t pleased, informing LSU through his attorney that he “feels profoundly disrespected” and forbidding the school to use his name, image and likeness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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

For all his affability, there was also a more forbidding side to Wood as a businessman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The forbidding complex of twenty buildings employed 7,000 people; by some estimates, the Stasi archives contained more than one billion documents describing the vast network of spies and informers cultivated over four decades.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau