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allowance

[uh-lou-uhns] / əˈlaʊ əns /




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Sir William Napier continued providing him with an annual allowance, and Byfield traveled to London when his longtime patron died in 1860.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

Through a “linkage agreement,” California and Quebec let indulgences move across borders, and participate together in WCI’s quarterly allowance auctions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Should competing platforms adopt equivalent commitments, the overnight lockout would widen to 10 pm to 7 am and the daily allowance would fall to 60 minutes per app, capped at two hours in total.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Older adults with diabetes in Medicare Advantage plans don’t have better health than those with traditional Medicare, even with extra benefits like a grocery allowance or a gym membership.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

"Oh, some will come through. I've two weeks allowance should be here. I can live on tick at this pub in Saint Jean."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

We have agitated for paid parental leave, universal childcare, better public schools, child allowances, and other help for struggling parents.

From Slate Sep. 14, 2026

It is fed by California’s cap-and-invest program, which allows large polluters to buy and sell allowances for their greenhouse gas emissions.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

"Now everyone's making allowances for that, and it's not a problem," she tells the BBC.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

They are usually non-refundable, with limitations on checked-luggage allowances and the opportunities to collect miles.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

Being a medical student, of course, I have an inhuman schedule, and everyone makes allowances for that.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The first album I ever bought with my own money, allowanced saved up for weeks, was “Long Hard Climb.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2020

We found sugar scarce; butter scarce, and bread sharply allowanced in hotels and restaurants.

From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White

But the timber will be allowanced, and the land parcelled out, to each household according to its needs, as soon as either becomes scarce, as is already the case in Russia.

From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince

Then don't you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.'

From The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The poor dog, thus allowanced, must have been sorry that he ever joined us.

From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore

The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day.

From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White

And when the larger wood begins to grow scarce, what course does the peasant adopt?—The allowancing of individuals.

From The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris by Henry Glasse




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