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It will also strengthen age verification, ban beauty filters for teenagers, and offer young users a non-personalized content feed.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Norris told BBC Radio 5 Live the Argentine should be hit with a race ban for his driving.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The Premier League fined Chelsea £10m and handed out a suspended transfer ban after they admitted making £47m in secret payments.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Instead, negotiations broke down and new trade actions — like the ban on Canadian alcohol that starts Tuesday — have been rolled out by each side.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
I wondered if this was his way of participating in Reb Saunders’ ban against me and my father.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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By then—that would have been 1995—the Shorawi were defeated and long gone and Kabul belonged to Massoud, Rab- bani, and the Mujahedin.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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He was of the Dārim, one of the most respected divisions of the bani Tamīm, and his mother was of the tribe of Ḍabba.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
The king sent the bani of Bosnia and Croatia to help them, but the Venetian senate bought the rescuers off!
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
In the true Bedouin spirit he devoted his talent largely to satire and attacked the bani Nahshal and the bani Fuqaim.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Particularly is this the case with the inscriptions of Sennacherib and Ashur bani apal.
From Assyrian Historiography by A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) Olmstead
Pro-kratom groups like the American Kratom Association are pushing for bans against synthetics "posing as natural kratom".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
“The problem with export bans is that they don’t increase domestic supply, but may lower supply, causing a further rise in prices,” said Gbenga Ajilore, chief economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Some critics of social media bans for children cite privacy concerns.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
That shifting logic has prompted two participating villages to voluntarily introduce hunting bans since the project started, added Nardiyono.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
I knew such measures would come, but I had not expected to receive my bans in the remote town of Villiers.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Following the warnings, countries including Oman, Turkey and the U.A.E. banned Iranian airlines and restricted transactions with Iranian banks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Durigan said that new advertising contracts for betting companies were also immediately banned, while current contracts would be void after October 6.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Your books have meant so much to so many people, and in recent years, I’ve reported quite a bit on your book, “Looking for Alaska,” being one of the most commonly banned books.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
A federal judge named Timothy Kelly will hear the three banned outlets’ lawsuit.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
In 2002, there were about a hundred people with mental retardation facing execution when the Court banned the death penalty for people with intellectual disability.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Security Council to consider narrow agreements banning the use of AI for certain tasks, including creating biological weapons.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
In addition to banning corporate interference in medical care, the congressional bill would prohibit noncompete and nondisclosure agreements for physicians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The biggest worry was once about nuclear weapons in space, but the superpowers and other countries signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1967, banning weapons of mass destruction in orbit.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Sungu is a supporter of cellphone bans in schools, and leans toward banning social media for children as well, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
They agreed to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the first nuclear arms control agreement, banning nuclear tests everywhere but underground.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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