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no-no's

no-nos

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“Natural light is the best. I can’t do a dark house. The no-no of no-nos is bad floor plan and flow, and not enough natural light.”

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

With that in mind, it might not be surprising that "Saturday Night Live" gave the button-pushing comedian a list of "no-nos" during his recent appearance on the long-running series.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2025

Among the social no-nos: Surreptitiously recording others and reading on the device while seeming to ignore others.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

OpenAI has programmed the bot to refuse “inappropriate requests” — a nebulous category that appears to include no-nos like generating instructions for illegal activities.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2022

But most institutions, she notes, already have policies designed to avoid such obvious no-nos, such as employing family members on a grant.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 29, 2021