as in to prohibit
to order not to do or use or to be done or used
regulations proscribe the use of electronic devices on board a plane while it is landing
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Recent Examples of proscribe
If only Wolverine could make good on his threat to deal with the offender in the manner proscribed.
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Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
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
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Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proscribe
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The agency also prohibited the simultaneous use of runways 15/33 and 4/22 when helicopters conducting urgent missions are operating near DCA.—
Alexandra Koch , Chad Pergram , Grady Trimble,
FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
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Hoffman previously sponsored legislation that prohibited state and local agencies from enacting vaccine mandates.—
Mary Hudetz,
ProPublica,
2 May 2025
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By forbidding a digital dollar, Washington intended to preserve that story: liberty, privacy, entrepreneurial zeal.—
Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Kerr once famously won the World Vale Tudo Championship with a fractured hand and was later forbidden from competing in American Championship Fighting due to a different hand injury.—
Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Other provisions of the letter included that Harvard ban all DEI policies, or at least those that consider gender, race, ability, age, socioeconomic status, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, or nationality.—
Charlotte Y. Levy,
Rolling Stone,
4 May 2025
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The same month, Idaho banned soda and candy purchases using food stamps.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
4 May 2025
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The organization was outlawed in 2021 due to alleged extremist views, which led to a 19-year sentence for its leader, who died in an Arctic penal colony last year.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
15 Apr. 2025
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While the feds rule the sky, the city can regulate where helicopters are permitted to land — a move made by city officials who outlawed rooftop landings following the 1977 Pan Am crash.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Proscribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proscribe. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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