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[en-join] / ɛnˈdʒɔɪn /




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The order would also “permanently” restrain and enjoin Musk’s trust from violating the section of the Exchange Act that was the subject of this case, according to the text of the proposed settlement.

From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026

Court of International Trade to enjoin the tariffs so businesses don’t have to pay them while litigation plays out and later seek refunds if higher courts rule them unlawful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

“Because such discrimination violates the Supremacy Clause, the Court is constrained to enjoin the facial covering prohibition,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

The department argues that “district courts lack jurisdiction to hear challenges arising from removal proceedings or to issue orders that enjoin or restrain execution of removal orders.”

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025

Some employers go further; instead of relying on the informal “money taboo” to keep workers from discussing and comparing wages, they specifically enjoin workers from doing so.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

So, will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which God enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin?

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

The First Amendment enjoins Congress from legally establishing a particular religion or requiring citizens to observe or deny religious tenets.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021

“The court hereby enjoins Defendants from executing Keith Nelson until they have met the requirements of the FDCA,” Chutkan wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2020

The May federal ruling further enjoins “officers, agents, and employees” of WPM from “suppressing the availability of truthful negative comments or reviews through any means, including threats, intimidation, non-disparagement clauses, and suppression of online content.”

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2018

Most of, or rather all, his other Cautions and Corrections seem equally necessary here, as often as the Sick are similarly circumstanced, under the different acute Diseases in which he enjoins them.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

State courts have deemed such strikes illegal, and courts have sometimes enjoined public union strikes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

She asked Justice Department lawyers what set apart the most recent cuts from previous ones she enjoined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025

When they stop individuals with no reasonable suspicion, they act in violation of federal law, and a court in California has enjoined this practice.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2025

“Nor has the Government adequately identified which particular provisions, if any, are sufficiently independent of the enjoined definitional provision and thus might be able to remain in effect,” reads the ruling.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2024

Directly after the conference I sent Prime Minister Verwoerd a letter in which I formally enjoined him to call a national constitu-tional convention.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

In the book of Genesis, God sealed the covenant with Abraham by enjoining him to “circumscribe the flesh of your foreskin.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

On behalf of UCLA, attorney Ray Cardozo argued that Carter erred in enjoining the school from using its baseball stadium on the property even though it was not a named defendant in the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

“This broad displacement contradicts what B.P.J. told the court a few months ago — that not one ‘single person’ would be harmed by enjoining this validly enacted state law.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

I wondered: Instead of paternalistically enjoining Yolande to remain focused on her studies, what if Du Bois had engaged his teenage daughter as a young intellectual?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023

The prince despatched, on the instant, an old confidential servant, with instructions, in writing, enjoining on the demoiselle Clairon to return everything which she had received from this foreigner.

From Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel Williams


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