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His administration last month announced an increase to Bolsa Familia, Lula's flagship allowance for poor families, which came into effect this week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

He’s been living off an allowance from his parents, but knows they can’t support him forever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

And, when a person dies, they can currently transfer this tax-free allowance to a surviving spouse or civil partner which increases the combined threshold for a couple to £650k.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“While much remains to be seen, its clearest differentiator is its industry-leading output allowance of 1 million tokens,” Evercore ISI analyst Mark Mahaney wrote in a note to clients.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

"I brought some coins from my allowance," she explained.

From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene

Lower prices or more generous usage allowances need to translate into durable business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Upper secondary teachers in France last year on average earned the equivalent of $69,000 annually, bonuses and allowances included, according to the OECD.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The council has also agreed to continue discussions with the union on outstanding issues including lower-paid workers, allowances, unevaluated jobs, equality impacts and the operation of the new pay model.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The legislation was limited because of complaints by mortgage servicers that many mortgage contracts and guidelines do not have allowances for state-declared emergencies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

My friends got allowances from their parents, a concept I had never heard of.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

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

Onct a week dey would come and dey allowanced 'em out pervisions.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

"Months and months out of sight of land, and provisions running short, and allowanced as to water, and your mind communing with the mighty ocean, and all that sort of thing?"

From The Wind in the Willows by Paul Bransom

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

Accordingly I allowanced my men two pounds of beads monthly, and they went to distant villages and purchased their own provisions independently of me.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Sir Samuel White Baker

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