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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Cashier Sandra Cornejo said the suspect ordered Oreo ice cream before pulling out a knife and demanding money.—
Zach Boetto, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
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Built for demanding factory environments Atlas is a fully electric humanoid robot with 56 degrees of freedom, meaning 56 independently controllable joints that allow fluid, human-like motion.—
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Issue guidance instructing pharmacists and other health care providers to encourage COVID-19 vaccines, as well as to prescribe and administer them.—
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Goya’s print with this quote originally features a master donkey, seemingly instructing a disciple.—
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Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, the early polling front-runner, cited her history of battling the president in her first term, including a 2018 order prohibiting the city’s jail from accepting new detainees from federal immigration agents.—
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In 2010, more than 60% of Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting the drawing of district boundaries to unfairly favor one political party in a process known as gerrymandering.—
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No prohibition had been announced, but they would never be allowed to join a guild.—
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In Margaret Atwood’s chilling dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, the founders of the Republic of Gilead legislate a blanket prohibition on women’s employment and the seizure of their personal savings.—
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While the temporary jail facility will not be subject to the city ordinance requiring the standard, the permanent facility that is also planned will be.—
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Governing is a long and laborious process, requiring study, deliberation and the weighing of competing forces.—
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But videos captured by other observers and members of the public show an ICE agent approaching a Honda Pilot that was stopped on a snowy road and ordering the driver — later identified as Good — to open the door before grabbing the handle.—
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The wrong ordering principle Powerful forces militate against the idea of organizing the world into spheres-of-influence.—
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But the pastor seems to know that merely forbidding corpse-killing is not enough to stop it.—
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Nora goes on to wonder how Agnes turned out stable in such a forbidding household.—
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The peregrine falcon faced near-extinction in the UK in the 1950s before it was rescued by the banning of the pesticide DDT and stronger legal reinforcements.—
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One is about conversion therapy, and the other is about the banning of transgender athletes.—
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“Enjoining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enjoining. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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