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That covers hundreds of employees right now, and possibly thousands more in the coming month, given the plans that Vought was developing for another round of the purges that Congress had outlawed.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2025

But far earlier, by 2008, the state had outlawed discrimination against gay people in housing, public accommodation and employment, and it established civil rights protections on the basis of gender identity.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2022

One thing that is fun to put on the side of this is that six days before Epic Games sued Apple, Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO, tweeted out that Apple had outlawed the metaverse.

From The Verge • Jul. 19, 2022

The Seneca Falls Convention was attended mostly by white women, even though northern states like New York had outlawed enslavement.

From National Geographic Kids • Feb. 25, 2020

The miners whispered about organizing a union, and Fannie encouraged them, but a judge had outlawed the United Mine Workers of America, or UMWA, in the region.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell