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as in to ban
to make or declare contrary to the law
a push to outlaw smoking in all public buildings
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as in to prohibit
to order not to do or use or to be done or used
fed up with the constant interruptions, the physician has outlawed all cell phone use from his office
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as in bandit
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Recent Examples of outlaw
Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Reductions are extremely desirable, as are firm caps on total numbers, but efforts to outlaw all nuclear weapons are fundamentally flawed.
—Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Her band Freda & the Firedogs, an outlaw country group, came together in 1972 as the genre was gaining traction in early ‘70s Austin.
—Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
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Verb
New state regulations approved this month are set to significantly reshape California's cardroom industry, with operators warning the changes would effectively outlaw blackjack-style games from within those facilities.
—Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Reductions are extremely desirable, as are firm caps on total numbers, but efforts to outlaw all nuclear weapons are fundamentally flawed.
—Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
In the decades before legalization, outlaw engineers had pioneered the techniques of extraction in secrecy.
—Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Her band Freda & the Firedogs, an outlaw country group, came together in 1972 as the genre was gaining traction in early ‘70s Austin.
—Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outlaw
Verb
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The researchers recommended that the EU pass legislation proposed by the European Commission to ban Hungary and Slovakia’s imports of Russian crude oil as soon as possible.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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Sappenfield was permanently banned by the United States Center for SafeSport in May 2024 for physical and emotional misconduct, retaliation, abuse of process, and failure to report a potential SafeSport violation.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
16 Feb. 2026
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The group is pushing for legislation to prohibit out-of-school suspensions for nonviolent behavior.—
Theo Peck-Suzuki,
Hartford Courant,
15 Feb. 2026
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The bill would also prohibit districts from participating in the National School Lunch Program’s Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) — a funding option that provides free meals for every student in high-poverty schools — without the Legislature’s explicit permission.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
15 Feb. 2026
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The story revolves around Davis, the sort of gentleman bandit who thoughtfully returns his victims’ cell phones before making his departure and who, in the grand tradition of cinematic thieves, is looking to get out of the business after that last big score.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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Fleeing into the desert with her father, she is hunted by a merciless army and forced to trust a legendary bandit (Mackie) with secrets of his own.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2026
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Texas should regulate, not criminalize.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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Many legal cannabis ventures enrich hedge funds and politicians, and relatively few benefits accrue to the people who suffered jail time or worse when the drug was criminalized in every state.—
Ezra Marcus,
Vulture,
11 Feb. 2026
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Its first phase started with more than 600 villages along India's 2,100-mile-long border with China, many high up in the forbidding Himalayan plateau.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2026
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For the next several hours, Anna sat in a room at a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, forbidden from calling her family or a lawyer.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
17 Feb. 2026
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Violence is widespread in the city proper, with large encampments where meth and other drugs are readily available and criminals reportedly exploit the city’s free bus system to carry out offenses.—
Michael Ruiz , Adriana James-Rodil,
FOXNews.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Godwin is well known in the space, having assisted law enforcement nationwide leading to the removal of hundreds of criminals from the streets.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
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Basis for the suit to illegalize the union, lawyers explained, is the difference in race between the participants.—
sandiegouniontribune.com,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
28 Feb. 2018
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Rather than negotiating a political agreement, Madrid decided to illegalize Basque political parties allegedly linked with terrorism and to prosecute their leaders.—
Sergi Pardos-Prado,
Washington Post,
28 Oct. 2017
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All of the daring and courage of the Golden Age films about cowboys, fighters, pilots, and pirates is distilled into the score for the first Indiana Jones movie.—
Alex Galbraith,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Feb. 2026
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Led by the energetic Danny, the show take viewers on adventures to find pirate treasure, pretend to be superheroes, and fly like an airplane.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Outlaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outlaw. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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