forbade
Americanverb
verb
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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
This neutrality was legally defined by the Hague Convention of 1907, which forbade Switzerland supplying weapons to countries at war.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Common-law rules at the time forbade defendant testimony on the theory that it was self-interested and thus unreliable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
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