proscribe

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Recent Examples of proscribe Mourning, which would last at least two years for a widow, proscribed any jewelry except pearls and black onyx, with the only gold permitted being the wedding ring. Judith Martin, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025 The Government responded by proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, placing the group on the same legal footing as al-Qaeda and Islamic State. Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025 On Sunday, British police arrested more than 500 people for demonstrating in support of a pro-Palestine group proscribed because of its acts of violence against British military installations. David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2025 Advertisement The group was proscribed as a terrorist group under the 2000 Terrorism Act by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper on July 5, after members of the group broke into a Royal Air Force base in Oxfordshire on June 20, spray painting two Voyager jets and damaging them with crowbars. Richard Hall, Time, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for proscribe
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Verb
  • Federal regulations prohibit new types of aircraft from flying over populated areas, or operating at night and during bad weather, WSJ reported.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The number of people who are found dangerous and prohibited from purchasing guns has increased dramatically.
    Tony Cook, IndyStar, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Several stories account for the ominous name of the stark, forbidding mountains.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • His bail bond conditions forbid him with interacting with minors online or in person.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Trump has issued orders seeking to ban the use of mail ballots or at least the counting of those cast by Election Day but received afterward — a common practice in both Democratic and Republican states.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The tush push has been a constant story this season after the play fell just short of receiving the necessary votes in the offseason to ban it.
    Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Courts undid Nixon’s actions, and Congress eventually passed the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which outlawed the maneuver, leaving only narrow exceptions — rescissions — that required congressional sign-off.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Courts undid Nixon’s actions, and Congress eventually passed the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which outlawed the maneuver, leaving only narrow exceptions—rescissions—that required congressional sign-off.
    Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Proscribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proscribe. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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