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noun

injunction

a formal command or admonition

In a sentence

Six example sentences with injunction, each labelled with its topic.

  • The judge issued an injunction barring the company from selling the product until the patent hearing concluded in June.

    Law

  • Kant's injunction to treat people as ends rather than tools survives in nearly every modern code of research ethics.

    Philosophy

  • The founder repeated one injunction at every meeting, that the team ship something a customer can touch before the quarter closes.

    Business

  • First, do no harm is the injunction every medical student hears, long before anyone lets them near a patient.

    Medicine

  • The whip's injunction was clear: nobody speaks to the press about the budget until the leader has spoken first.

    Politics

  • Escoffier's injunction to keep things simple still hangs on the wall of the cooking school's main kitchen.

    Cooking

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