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anticensor
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Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
Did you mean "inhibit"? Prohibit means to forbid.
Symmetry
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Prohibit as in "(of a fact or situation) prevent (something); make impossible." rather than "formally forbid (something) by law, rule, or other authority". It's not the most common usage of the word but it's still a pretty common one.
drewbug
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e.g. "prohibitively expensive"
ptah
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to me "inhibit" means more like dampening or lessening something while "prohibit" means stopping something completely
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