allowed
Example Sentences
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For example, what effect would withdrawing an additional $2,200 a month from your portfolio have over the next 25 years if it allowed your wife to delay claiming Social Security?
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
“More broadly, this is about how FIFA’s absurd governance structure has allowed Gianni Infantino to openly flout the organization’s rules.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The Justice Department included UC Davis literature that said the scale had allowed the school to triple the enrollment of Black and Latino students.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
The 29-year-old was allowed out of jail on Monday to attend a meeting with his mother's doctor at the family's Skaugum estate outside Oslo.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
I allowed Opal to rattle off any ridiculous name she wanted.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Vocabulary lists containing allowed
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