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"banned" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often prohibited (10 letters).
Definitions
Officially forbidden, prohibited, or not allowed.
Used in a sentence
“The London-based Free Tibet Campaign said at least 500 Tibetans had protested in the province's Luqu county on Saturday, where they burned Chinese flags and flew the banned Tibetan flag.”
“As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Forbidden”6 letters
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