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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
Melinda Wenner Moyer, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
The order’s provision to outlaw post-Election Day ballot tabulation sets up a clash between Trump and California.
County officials are given nearly a month to process ballots and millions of ballots in the state are counted in the days and weeks after an election.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Robert Daniels, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Still, this adaptation of an O. Henry story tilts all its sympathies toward the outlaw hero the Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter, in a Best Actor–winning role) and away from the pompous white soldier charged with tracking him down.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
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Utah has become the first U.S. state to outlaw the addition of fluoride to public drinking water.
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Though set in a coastal town, Lorenz’s film possesses all the hallmarks of a classic Western: the steady lawman (Ciarán Hinds), the helpful neighbor (Niamh Cusack), the outlaw friend (Colm Meaney), and the quick-trigger gunslinger (Jack Gleeson).
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Certain artificial dyes used in the U.S. are banned or subject to warning labels in other countries.—
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths annually in the U.S. Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California, banned the sale of most tobacco products beginning in 2021.—
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Inmates are prohibited from receiving visits from family and friends.—
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Because sonic booms are disruptive, supersonic flight is prohibited over populated areas in the U.S.—
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Then one day, Moses the Black is struck with the horror of it all and joins a desert monastery, where he's eventually killed by another group of bandits.—
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Instead, her love interest is a charming bandit named Jonathan (Andrew Burnap), cut from the same cloth as the animated Flynn from Disney’s Tangled.—
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To combat such phantoms, Georgian Dream has passed new legislation that criminalizes assembly and protest.—
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Questions have been raised about whether the Signal chat violated the Espionage Act, a 1917 law criminalizing unauthorized storage or disclosure of sensitive defense information.—
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At first, any expression of Japanese culture was forbidden.—
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In many areas, religious or cultural norms forbid unrelated men from entering the home.—
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In the film, Martin Lawrence plays an FBI agent who has to go undercover as a larger-than-life grandma — the eponymous Big Momma — to track down an escaped criminal.—
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In a recent spree of clemency for white collar criminals, President Trump has pardoned Utah entrepreneur Trevor Milton, who was convicted in 2022 of misleading investors in his hydrogen and electric truck company Nikola.—
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Basis for the suit to illegalize the union, lawyers explained, is the difference in race between the participants.—
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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.—
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Travelers can also visit the San Felipe Fort for a dose of pirate history, then unwind in the slow-moving current of the natural lazy river Los Rápidos.—
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Elementary School Kids can step into the world of pirates at The North Carolina Maritime Museum, where artifacts from Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge ship live.—
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“Outlaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outlaw. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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