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disallow

[dis-uh-lou] / ˌdɪs əˈlaʊ /


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Glasner, Williams and most of the Forest fanbase refuse to accept that evidence does exist, and that there were no grounds to disallow the goal.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Some, including Robinhood and SoFi, say they will disallow or limit allocations for people who have participated in IPOs in the past and have “flipped” shares, selling them within 30 days of the offering.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

They were only rescued by an agonizing video review that took over 4 minutes to disallow the goal.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

"I don't see, with the VAR, how you can disallow that goal. That's a shame to be honest. It is what it is and it's nothing we can control."

From BBC Mar. 24, 2026

Or after Granny died and wasn’t there anymore to disallow it, why didn’t he take the stuff to his own house?

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

But his claim was rejected by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals under a 1994 precedent that disallows using such lawsuits to collaterally attack criminal convictions.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 1, 2025

In New York, redistricting rules are set by a constitutional amendment that disallows mid-decade redistricting and partisan gerrymandering.

From Salon Aug. 19, 2025

It is not uncommon for inductees to be added to the hall of fame posthumously, but the association’s rule specifically disallows artists to be elected in the year of their death.

From New York Times Mar. 18, 2024

It neither mandates nor disallows any actions by companies or individuals.

From Washington Times Oct. 6, 2023

We experience this pleasure unmixed, so long as we do not think of any moral end which disallows action before us.

From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

United can feel hard done by because City's winner should have been disallowed, but City were the better team with 10 men.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

While that model was undergoing some AI training in May, it was noticed by an internal OpenAI team that there had been "an agent engaging in message board activity and instances of disallowed internet access."

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Over the first 10 rounds of the season, Samuelsson said, officials have reported five situations where a goal was wrongfully disallowed or should not have stood.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

Four years ago in Qatar, only one goal was disallowed after 70 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

However, any mathematician of the day would have scoffed at this line of reasoning; Archimedes used the tools of the infinite, which were so expressly disallowed by his mathematical colleagues.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Haaland’s push on England’s Elliott Anderson led to video replay disallowing a go-ahead strike, which briefly appeared to have given Norway a second-half lead.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Instead of disallowing conversations about “imminent real-world harm” and self-harm, it placed them in a category in which the model was instructed to simply “take extra care” with users.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 2025

There will be some gripes at the disallowing of Galton's goal, with her push on Hunt far from severe, but they had plenty of further chances to take the tie all the way.

From BBC Oct. 18, 2023

What reason did the Court give for disallowing race to be among many explicit factors considered?

From Salon Jun. 30, 2023

Another February 8 motion was aimed at disallowing the prosecution from using anything in the trial that Reggie had said to Rindlisbacher at the scene of the accident, and en route to the hospital.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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