proscribe

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Recent Examples of proscribe Western forces should not be deployed to fight in Ukraine, and the use of Western weapons against civilian targets within Russia should be proscribed. Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2024 See, for instance, the efforts to mitigate the harms of drug use as opposed to proscribing individuals’ activities. Christine Emba, The Atlantic, 8 July 2024 The United States is only further isolating itself and diminishing our declining prestige in the eyes of the rest of the world with his wish to proscribe only those who are not in his favor. Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 31 May 2024 In most universities, physical confrontations, the targeting of individuals with threats or harassment, and the disruption of campus activities are explicitly proscribed. Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for proscribe
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Verb
  • More than 90 countries do not have laws mandating equal pay for equal work, while dozens of others prohibit women from working in certain industries, such as construction or manufacturing.
    Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The city of Fullerton will begin enforcing stricter anti-camping rules, prohibiting homeless individuals from sitting, lying or sleeping in public spaces or storing their property on sidewalks and similar public spaces.
    Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 7 Mar. 2025
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  • Using someone else’s work without proper attribution — which includes similarities in wording and in the way a story is structured — is a significant breach of our journalistic standards and is strictly forbidden by The Bee.
    Colleen McCain Nelson, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Cuban independent media have provided the type of watchdog journalism that state outlets are forbidden to do, often forcing the government to respond to denunciations first covered in their reporting.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
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  • A little over five months after his death, and 35 years after he was banned from the game of baseball by then-commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, Pete Rose may be posthumously getting his flowers – from two different angles.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Benjamin Mako Hill, a professor at the University of Washington who co-authored a research paper on the Croatian Wikipedia debacle, told me that contributors without a political agenda were eventually able to wrest control back, banning a small group of Fascist apologists from editing articles.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2025
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  • This makes Mississippi the third state to outlaw meat grown in vats from small samples of animal cells.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In another sign of his everlasting campaign, Trump called for Congress to outlaw taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security benefits, despite Republicans not expected to pursue those priorities in budget talks.
    Zachary Basu, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025

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“Proscribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proscribe. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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