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The phrase "expressly forbade" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that something was explicitly prohibited or banned.
Example: "The new policy expressly forbade any form of discrimination in the workplace."
Alternatives: "clearly prohibited" or "explicitly banned."
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The Act expressly forbade Toolco to acquire control of TWA without approval of the Board.
A placard at security expressly forbade, among other items, crossbows, machetes, pliers, firearms, lighters shaped like firearms, harpoons, and catapults.
Finally Goering, as Supreme Commander of the Air Force, expressly forbade Galland to make any further reports on this matter.
As the frequency of prizefights increased, various states moved beyond general and sometimes vague statutes concerning assault and enacted laws that expressly forbade fistfights.
Aissatou Bey-Grecia, 58, has lived in the neighborhood since 1968, when her parents expressly forbade her from going into Morningside Park.
"We remain adamant that Oliver would not have died if he had not been administered the olanzapine, which we expressly forbade.
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Cameras were expressly forbidden.
Nothing in Islam expressly forbids birth control.
But it isn't expressly forbidden.
But you forget, our medical charter expressly forbids it.
For educational use only; commercial use expressly forbidden.
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