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interdicting

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verb

present participle of interdict

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Smith, who is now winding down both his cases against the president-elect due to a longstanding Department of Justice policy prohibiting the prosecution of a sitting president, has not provided any details about the contents of his report.
    Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • That has prompted states including Colorado, New York and California to enact legislation prohibiting medical debt from being included on residents' credit reports or factored into their credit scores.
    Noam Levey, NPR, 7 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Despite Ukraine's air defenses intercepting many of the missiles in Friday's attack, this has already wrought significant damage on Ukraine's capital, causing fires to break out in several areas, with authorities urging residents to remain in shelters.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Forecasts of the shortfall in electricity supply remain highly unreliable, largely due to the unpredictable nature of Russian missile strikes on energy infrastructure and varying success in intercepting the missiles.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Jha highlighted that in the absence of any strict contractual prohibitions mentioned in the licensing agreements between the streamer and creator, platforms tend to exercise their own editorial discretion.
    Viren Naidu, IndieWire, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Short of a full prohibition, Congress could also look to copy smart reforms from the states, as Judge Glock and Renu Mukherjee have written in a recent Manhattan Institute report.
    The Editors, National Review, 31 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The future, in itself, exerts an attractive force—not just the general future, with its bland procession of potential events, but the futuristic future, with its alluring, fascinating, and forbidding narrative turns.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Republicans have added a rider to the must-pass defense authorization bill, forbidding such care for minors.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Interdicting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interdicting. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.

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