disallowed

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It was England who misinterpreted an on-field offside decision, causing a goal for Liverpool's Luis Diaz to be wrongly disallowed at Tottenham.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Arteta called the disallowed goal one of the "most chaotic circumstances", with both teams "playing for their lives".

From BBC • May 10, 2026

A failed merger with Frontier, and a disallowed buyout from JetBlue, distracted from operations.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

He noted their initial motion to dismiss argued Ohta had disallowed critical evidence in the case.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 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