afforded

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Frederiksen had previously won international esteem and a degree of influence rarely afforded her nation of six million people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Every now and then a particular asset is afforded greater heft than usual in determining broader market machinations.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 6, 2026

“I don’t know that they could have afforded any of those things when they were in Cuba,” he tells De Los.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

It was a space where she and her female friends could engage with Boys' Love in a way that afforded them more agency over their own pleasure.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

We were afforded that brief glimpse of the terrain—the soldiers of the 14th already marching across the bridge toward the enemy encampment in their rows, six by six; and we in rows to follow them.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson