"off-limits" meaning in English

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          "text": "The pond was off-limits to swimmers.",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Tina Fey, Mean Girls, spoken by Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert)",
          "text": "Irregardless, ex-boyfriends are just off-limits to friends. I mean that's just, like, the rules of feminism.",
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          "ref": "2004 October 18, “Kinmen seeks to develop six demilitarized islets”, in Taipei Times",
          "text": "According to Yang, the six islets have been purely military for more than five decades.\n\"These islets were completely off-limits to civilians, even to Kinmen residents,\" Yang said.",
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          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria",
          "text": "To Restricted Area\nDirections\nThe restricted area is off-limits to all unauthorized personnel.",
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          "ref": "2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 49–50",
          "text": "It was truly one of the most horrific filming experiences of my career there, contrasting neatly with some of the best of my career - filming in various off-limits storerooms at LTM's Acton Depot.",
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        {
          "word": "out of bounds"
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  "word": "off-limits"
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          "text": "The pond was off-limits to swimmers.",
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          "ref": "2004, Tina Fey, Mean Girls, spoken by Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert)",
          "text": "Irregardless, ex-boyfriends are just off-limits to friends. I mean that's just, like, the rules of feminism.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 October 18, “Kinmen seeks to develop six demilitarized islets”, in Taipei Times",
          "text": "According to Yang, the six islets have been purely military for more than five decades.\n\"These islets were completely off-limits to civilians, even to Kinmen residents,\" Yang said.",
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          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria",
          "text": "To Restricted Area\nDirections\nThe restricted area is off-limits to all unauthorized personnel.",
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    {
      "word": "out of bounds"
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  "word": "off-limits"
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