as in prohibiting
the act of ordering that something not be done or used the enjoining of the use of all tobacco products by the director of the baseball camp
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as in demanding
to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority police enjoined the community's full cooperation in getting rid of the drug dealers
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as in instructing
to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority undeterred, the captain enjoined his crew to sail at full speed into the mine-filled harbor
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as in forbidding
to order not to do or use or to be done or used Quakerism enjoins the taking of human life
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Recent Examples of enjoining
Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 6 Mar. 2026
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The lawsuit asks the Ingham County Circuit Court to declare Kalshi's internet sports betting operation a common law nuisance and to issue a permanent injunction and order of abatement enjoining and restraining Kalshi from engaging in or advertising its internet sports betting operation in Michigan. —Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 6 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enjoining
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The loan, promised to Kyiv months ago, has been long delayed because Hungary’s outgoing Prime Minister Victor Orbán was blocking it, demanding Ukraine restarts the flow of Russian oil into Europe.— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
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Democrats are demanding that Mills also be expelled, arguing similar conduct should have similar outcomes.— Jared Gans, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2026
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Audio of the exchange captures the controller urgently instructing the smaller aircraft, identified as Skylab 25, to stop before directing the UPS jet to go around.— Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
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LeVota also retroactively implemented a cap on commercial property values by instructing county staff to manually adjust the 2025 assessments of more than 6,200 spaces.— Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2026
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El Monte passed a 45-day data center moratorium prohibiting processing, approval and acceptance of new data center land-use applications last month.— Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
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The department also could issue a rule prohibiting federal funds for hospitals performing gender-affirming care for minors, which would kick off another set of legal challenges.— Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
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The White House did not immediately respond to a question about whether the prohibition spans both offensive and defensive strikes.— Melanie Lidman, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
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Some educators are expanding technology prohibitions even further by dropping laptops from their classrooms, too.— Melanie Asmar, Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2026
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The moderate’s vision may even be the harder one to sustain, requiring a tolerance for frustration and an inurement to defeat and political disappointment.— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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New York City has already banned gas stoves and furnaces in new buildings, and Albany is moving to copy California’s approach by requiring zero-emission vehicles for future car, pickup, and SUV sales.— Nicole Malliotakis, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2026
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The 486 defendants are accused of being members of MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, and accused of ordering more than 47,000 crimes from 2012 to 2022, according to the Salvadoran government.— Marcos Aleman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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The pistachio cinnamon roll was rich and worth ordering again, but the croissants were the highlight.— Tristan Graziano, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2026
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Victor Glover described peering at the long shadows of the lunar terminator through a telephoto lens and suddenly feeling transported down to that airless, forbidding landscape and imagining himself off-road driving among jagged peaks.— Andrew Chaikin, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2026
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Upending a delicate balance Our original Constitution refers to religion only in forbidding any religious test to hold public office.— Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
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Still, Sylvain sees the banning of innocent users as a potential overcorrection.— Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
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Board members who have personal agendas – for example book banning, cell phone usage, gender and pronoun issues, history lessons, religious instruction – may be looking for a leader who feels similarly.— Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
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“Enjoining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/enjoining. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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